[MADOX, Thomas].

History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England ... to the end of the Reign of K. Edward II ...

London: Printed by John Matthews; and sold by Robert Knaplock … 1711. Two parts in one volume, as issued, folio, pp. [6], xviii, 752, xii, 75, [5] index, [2] list of subscribers; with a calligraphic inscription (‘The Guift of the Author M: Tho: Madox … To C. Milborne’) on the front free endpaper; a fine, crisp copy in contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco label; a couple of minor scrapes, joints and corners restored; engraved bookplate of Thomas Swinnerton; book-label of Viscount Mersey. First edition of Madox’s massive History, apparently presented by the author to Charles Milbourn, who is named among the subscribers.Wholly based upon original sources, this work ‘discusses almost all the aspects of medieval financial administration in England, and as an appendix … Madox printed for the first time … the famous text usually known as the Dialogus de Scaccario … wherein Richard fitz Neal, Bishop of London, and Treasurer in the reign of Henry II, explained the detailed working of the royal exchequer in his day …’ Madox not only provided a text of the Dialogus that was not superseded for two centuries, but he was ‘responsible for assigning the book to its true author’ (previously thought to be Gervase of Tilbury). David Douglas, English Scholars 1660–1730, pp. 309-12.Goldsmiths’ 4767; Kress 2726; McCulloch, p. 319; not in Hanson; this edition not in Einaudi.

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