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Author: Dugdale, Sir William
Title: Monasticon Anglicanum : a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales ... together with a particular account of their respective foundations, grants, and donations ... originally published in Latin by Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Garter Principal King at Arms.
Publication: London, "published for the proprietors by James Bohn" 1846.
Price: £1,950
Reference: 10090
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Large folio. 6 vols in 8. (4) + ii + viii + (4) + li + (1) + 642pp, 59 engraved plates ; (10) + 643 + (1)pp, 37 engraved plates ; viii + (2) + 640pp, 15 engraved plates ; xv + (5) + 691 + (1)pp, 14 engraved plates ; (10) + xi + (1) + 747 + (1)pp, 18 engraved plates ; xxiv + xii + 604pp, 35 engraved plates ; x + pp 605-1154 + lix + (3)pp, 22 engraved plates ; xi + (1) + pp 1157-1851 + (1)pp, 45 engraved plates. Contemporary quarter black morocco, cloth sides (the cloth sides varyingly faded). Early twentieth century engraved bookplates of Sir Ernest Cable (1st Baron Cable, financier and East India merchant), also recent bookplates of Jill Allibone. Some minor browning or spotting at outer margins of the plates (as is usual with this book).
These impressive volumes offer Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum in its full expanded nineteenth-century form. The earliest version of the Monasticon, founded on material originally collected by the antiquary Roger Dodsworth, had been published in three volumes between 1655 and 1673, and a supplement to it had been edited by John Stevens in the early 1720s, but by early in the nineteenth century it was felt that there was a need for a new edition that would take account of documents not known to Dugdale or to Stevens, and that would also provide illustrations of all the most notable surviving monastic churches, whether ruined or still in use as cathedrals or parish churches. The initial editor selected was Rev.Bulkeley Bandinel, Bodley's Librarian at Oxford University, but Bandinel soon handed over his editorial responsibilities to Sir Henry Ellis, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and to John Caley, Keeper of Records at the Augmentation Office and at the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, and it was Ellis and Caley who saw publication through to completion over a seventeen-year period between 1813 and 1830. An impressive accompanying series of engraved illustrations were provided by the draughtsman and engraver John Coney (1786-1833), a specialist in evocative images of the exteriors and interiors of mediaeval buildings.