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Member: gregorcles

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TagsEngland (45), History (45), 17th century (34), Literature (29), 16th century (17), Law (15), Sermons (12), Scotland (9), Black-letter (8), Historic Documents (8) — see all tags

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Groups18th Century British Literature, Antiquarian Books, Book Collectors, History of the Book, Rare, Old or Offbeat

Favorite authorsSir Richard Baker, William Camden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Timothy Cruso, John Evelyn, Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Henry Halford, George Herbert, William Hone, David Hume, Charles Kingsley, Sir Thomas Malory, John Milton, Francis Noel Clarke Mundy, John Owen, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Percy, Nicholas Ridley, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Edward Stillingfleet, Sir Philip Warwick, Sir Henry Wotton, John Wycliffe (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresJ. King Bookseller, MacLeod's

About meI collect antiquarian books, book leaves, and vellum documents. Taught myself in palaeography, art, music.

About my libraryThe past year I've developed my collection of pre-1700 books, documents, and book leaves considerably. My collection of historic documents includes a vellum land grant in Latin handwritten in Essex c AD 1270; a vellum fragment addressed to Lord Chancellor Thomas Goodricke the Reformer c 1552-3; also transaction #1108 of the sale of Charles I's Goods, October 10th, 1651, signed by the Trustees (including George Wither the poet). My book collection features a Kingsley novel with the bookplate of Sir John A Macdonald (first Canadian Prime Minister), and a 1607 Breeches Bible in black-letter English which was once the family-bible of the famous clock-maker Thomas Lister in the mid-18thC. My book leaf collection consists entirely of 15th-16thC black-letter English printings, from Wynken de Worde, Pynson, Stowe's 1561 Chaucer, etc. Essentially I collect printed and handwritten material related to England, especially English history, law, protestant theology. But my collection is still quite undeveloped having only just begun collecting about 5 years ago; and most of my pre-1700 items have been acquired after August 2008 (altho not entirely). Recently acquired Stillingfleet's Great Fire sermon (Oct. 10th, 1666), and Sir Philip Warwick's Memoirs of the Reign of King Charles I with the armorial ex-libris of the first Earl of Sheffield.

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Member sinceJun 15, 2008

Currently readingThe History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in MDCLXXXVIII. by David Hume
Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S. secretary to the Admirality in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. by Samuel Pepys
A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government to the Death of King James by Sir Richard Baker
The Bible, that is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament, translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages, with most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance by
Memoirs of the Reign of King Charles I. with a Continuation to the Happy Restoration of King Charles II. by Sir Philip Warwick
Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French, with Variations and Additions, from Many Celebrated MSS. by John Froissart
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