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. Volume the second. 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 3108277.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 2. Running number: 7825. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; sewn on six raised bands; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with fillet, roll and floral stamp decoration; gilt title 'Wood's Athenae. Vol. II.' on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Anthony à Wood (Oxford 1632 - Oxford 1695), author James Harrington (1611-1677), author