25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 88
 

88

Holinshed (Raphael)
The First and Second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1, The description and historie of England, 2, The description and historie of Ireland, 3, The description and historie of Scotland: First collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: Now newlie augmented and continued .... to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker ...
1587, folio in sixes, three volumes bound as four, [10], 250, [4], 202, [2]; 61, [13], 183, [1], 464, [56]; [8], 798; 799-1080, 1080-1371, 1371-1592, [62] pages, misnumbered pages but text continuous, several cancels, armorial bookplate of Thomas Caren in volume 1, re-backed calf gilt. ESTC S122178.



Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £800 - £1,200


 

Volume 1; first and last leaf a blank, title page laid down with loss to edges, repairs to three prelims. with very slight loss to text, prelims. may be out of sequence, worn fore-edge of page 1, a little staining in places, annotation in early hand to p. 167, 2nd 33, 111, tear to lower corner of [2nd]h6 with slight loss of marginal notes,
Volume 2, last leaf a blank, hole in margin of F4, P6, hole in text of J2, annotation to margins of p. 454, 458, 459, 464, tear to margin of 2N2, staining and annotation to index, last two printed leaves torn.
Volume 3, cropped title torn and laid down, ownership inscription of Hugonis Bateman, 1672 on backing sheet, replacement edges to A6, corner of C1torn with loss of margin note and page number, closed tear to E3, annotation to p.544. light staining to final leaves.
Volume 4 (3), tear to fore-edge margin of first page with loss of margin notes, closed tear to 5M5, small hole in text of 6H6, pages 1360-71 slightly smaller format (possibly cancels not given in ESTC), neat annotation to index, two blanks as called for.

 


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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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