preface david wilkins (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Title browned & with small tear to inner margin, 4 small tears repaired to b2, without loss, occasional marking, 20C brown library cloth; worn & frayed, spine torn; cancelled bookpl of University of Chicago Libraries, perforated stamp on title, cancelled on verso, number at head of next f, stamp on rear e-p. Tanner had been working on this hugely expanded edition of Leland's unpublished work of 1546 since the 1690s ('opus utilissimum, et XL annorum studio ac industria elaboratum', as the title announces); after his death in 1735 it was edited & completed by David Wilkins, to whose own Concilia Magnae Britanniae Tanner had contributed. Wilkins himself did not live to see the final production, having died in 1745.