25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
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[Johnson (Richard)]
The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom. St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain ... The First and Second Parts.
Printed for Ric. Chiswell, M. Wootton, G. Conyers and B. Walford, 1696, two volumes bound as one, small quarto, unpaginated, register A-Y4, A-S4. Part 1: neat repair to edges of A1 and A2, tears to R1 and T2 with loss to lower margin, single worm hole with text area of Q4 to end of second volume; Part 2: additional worm holes to lower margin, P2 onwards, becoming tracking at S2-4, gathering H cropped tight to lower edge with loss of catchwords, impinging on last line of H1v, closed tear to J2, tear with loss of text to corner of N4. Some staining to both volumes. Modern antique style sprinkled calf. ESTC R202613 and R13277
Sold for £500
Estimated at £400 - £600
Auction: The David Stather Library, 25th Jan, 2023
A single-owner sale of the Library of David Stather (1940-2022)
The library comprises a large collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts on English history, focusing on the English Civil War, the ‘Popish Plot’, the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution, early Parliament and the Monarchy of that period, the development of English law, the Reformation, early bibles and prayer books, chronicles of English history and some very early books on witchcraft.
The earliest manuscript dates from 1285, and the earliest book is an incunable from 1486, however the majority date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Interestingly, many are books that contribute to English history rather than just reporting on it, for example the collection includes books reporting the Popish Plot, which were written specifically to create social division through what is now known as ‘fake news’.
The books have been lovingly preserved by David Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from a very focused collection built up over his lifetime.
Please submit any enquiries for the sale to books@tennants-ltd.co.uk
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