John Aubrey's Monumenta Britannica, or, A Miscellany of British Antiquities (Subscription edition in two volumes)
PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Dorset Publishing Company.
BINDING
Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITION
Very good, few signs of wear or use. Small previous owners embossing stamp on flyleaf.
DUST JACKET
A little shelf wear to the edges of the jackets of both volumes.
EDITION
First subscription edition, 1980, limited to 595 copies.
DESCRIPTION
Annotated facsimiles of the original text, from the original held by the Bodleian Library. In three parts plus index, here published in two large volumes. Each approx. 21.5 x 30 cm.
SYNOPSIS
A modern reproduction of John Aubrey's survey of ancient sites of Britain, commissioned by Charles II.