Izacke, Richard and Samuel

Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter

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London Printed for Edw. Score and John March Booksellers in Exon, and Samuel Birt in Ave-Marie-lane, London 1724 Giving an Account of The Laws and Customs of the Place; The Offices, Court of Judicature, Gates, Walls, Rivers, Churches, and Immunities; The Titles and Privileges of the several Corporations, and their distinct Coats of Arms finely engraven on Copper-Plates: With a Catalogue of all the Bishops, Mayors, and Sheriffs, from the Year 1049, to 1677. Originally Collected by Richard Izacke, Esq; heretofore Chamberlain thereof. The Second Edition: Now very much Enlarged, and Continued to the Year 1723, by Samuel Izacke, Esq; the present Chamberlain thereof. To which is also Added, A New and Correct Map of the said City, with a Prospect of the Cathedral, curiously engraven on Copper-Plates: And the Freeman's Oath both Honorary and Common. Engraved frontispiece and folding map both by Sutton Nicholls, folding plate of Exeter Cathedral by J. Harris and engravings of coats-of-arms in the text. 8vo. [200 x 125 x 28 mm]. [1]f, iii, [i], 25, [26], 50-59, 62-63, 62-69, [1], 213, [66] pp. Bound in contemporary red goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border, an outer panel of a solid and two broken fillets with a large floral ornament at the corners and a semi-circular floral tool at the centres of the sides, connected to an inner panel composed of a double fillet and a floral roll incorporating a face in the sun. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered directly in the second panel, the others tooled to a saltire design with a bud tool in each quarter, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled in gilt with the floral roll, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (The spine slightly faded and a little trivial rubbing). Richard Izacke's "Antiquities of the City of Exeter" was first published in 1677 and reissued in 1681. Further editions, "improved and continued" by his son Samuel, followed in 1723, 1724, 1731, 1734 and 1741. This is a very good copy in a handsome binding, with the contemporary ink signature of N. Luttrell at the head of the title. This is probably Narcissus Luttrell junior (d.1727), the son of the great collector of the same name. With the later bookseller's label of George's of Bristol.

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• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)