| Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, Contributor(s): Walker, John (Editor), Aubrey, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108079334 ISBN-13: 9781108079334 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Biography & Autobiography | Reference - Art |
| Dewey: 920 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, Ge |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.94 lbs) 334 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770-1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626-97) to Anthony Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the third. Volume 1 consist of letters between antiquaries including Kenelm Digby, John Cotton and William Dugdale, on topics ranging from the Cornish language and the cure for a bite from a mad dog to the visit of the Princess Anne to Oxford during the tumult of her father's deposition in 1688. |