Athenae Oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the Fasti, or annals, of the said University. By Anthony Wood, M.A. In two volumes. The second edition, very much corrected and enlarged; with the addition of above 500 new lives from the author's original manuscript.
Anthony à Wood (Oxford 1632 - Oxford 1695)
Category
Books
Date
1721
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3108277
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; fol. Running number: 7825. Provenance: Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 22184) on vol. 1 front pastedown: 'Gabriel Odingsells' [i.e. Gabriel Odingsells (1690-1734), London playwright; hanged himself on 10 February 1734 at his house in Thatched Court, Westminster -- cf. ODNB]. Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript prices on vol. 1 front fly-leaf, two in ink (one reading "2.0-0", the other blotted out in ink) and two in pencil (one reading "1-11-6", the other erased). Manuscript price in ink on vol. 1 rear fly-leaf: "1:11.6 2 v". Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; sewn on six raised bands; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with fillet, roll and floral stamp decoration; title label missing from vol. 1 spine, gilt title label on vol. 2 spine 'Wood's Athenae. Vol. II.'; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Anthony à Wood (Oxford 1632 - Oxford 1695), author James Harrington (1611-1677), author