William Borlase,
Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall.
London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York Street; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate, St. Martin’s; and Benjamin White, at Horace’s Head, in Fleet Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
The Second [Preferred] Edition here in a tall clean copy
The Second [Preferred] Edition here in a tall clean copy
The volume(s) measure about 37.4 cm. by 24 cm. by 5 cm.
Each leaf measures about 364 mm. by 230 mm.
- Main description
- Condition
- Biography / Bibliography
Main description
Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays on the First Inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, Customs, and Remains of the most remote Antiquity in Britain, and the British isles, exemplified and proved by Monuments now extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, with a Vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, LL. D. F.R.S. Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall. The Second Edition, revised, with several additions, by the author; to which is added a Map of Cornwall, and two new plates. London, Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York Street; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate, St. Martin’s; and Benjamin White, at Horace’s Head, in Fleet Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Paginates: XVI, 464 p.
Collates [a]2, b-d2, B-6B2
Complete. The Second (Preferred) edition. A tall copy. With large folding map of Cornwall. 37 plates; two maps (one double page), twenty-five plates (two double page) and ten vignettes in the text. 750 copies printed.
Condition
Bound in contemporary calf, re-backed to style. Binding and re-back near fine. Corners renewed. Original endpapers. Internally with occasional minor foxing, but generally a clean copy. The map with a very small split in an internal fold. The map with generous borders.
The volume measures 37.5 x 24 x 5 cm. Each leaf measures 364 x 239 mm.
Biography / Bibliography
Per Wikipedia; William Borlase (2 February 1696 – 31 August 1772), Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist. From 1722, he was Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, where he died. He is remembered for his works The Antiquities of Cornwall.
In the parish of Ludgvan were rich copper works, abounding with mineral and metallic fossils, of which he made a collection, and thus was led to study somewhat minutely the natural history of Cornwall. In 1750, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society; and in 1754 he published, at Oxford, his Antiquities of Cornwall (2nd ed., London, 1769). His next publication was Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of Great Britain (Oxford, 1756). In 1758 there appeared his Natural History of Cornwall which includes a chapter on the inhabitants and their native language.
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