25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The David Stather Library
76
Grose (Francis)
The Antiquities of England and Wales.
S. Hooper, 1773-77, first editions, folio, five volumes including Supplement, bound as two, engraved title to each volume, engraved plates and half page engraved views within text-block, index after fourth volume, half morocco bindings with marbled boards (a sixth supplement, issued later is not present). [ESTC T147669].
[Grose (Francis), Astle (Thomas) et al.), The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellany, Intended to Preserve and Illustrate Several Valuable Remains of Old Times.
Francis Blyth and T. Evans, 1775, four quarto volumes, engraved plates, sprinkled calf (re-backed with gilt-tooled spines);
Dugdale (William), Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches ...
Printed by R. Harbin for D. Browne et al, 1718, folio, engraved plates, panelled calf (worn spine with some repairs, new label);
Stevens (John), The History of the Antient Abbeys, Monasteries ...., Being Two Additional Volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum ...
Tho. Taylor et al, 1722, two folio volumes with Appendix included in second volume, engraved plates, sprinkled calf (spines and corners worn).
[lot sold not collated]
Sold for £280
Estimated at £300 - £500
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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