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William Dugdale; Wenceslaus Hollar : The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated; From Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes, and Armes: Beautified With Maps, Prospects and Portraictures

Thomas Warren, London, c. 1656

18th-century diced russia gilt calf, rebacked preserving original spine, flat spine is in six densely-gilt compartments of gilt bands, board edges gilt-lined, all edges gilt, endpapers marbled. , Corners bumped; includes errata leaf but lacks final blank; light dampstain in outer margin of opening leaves; minor marginal worming toward end generally not affecting text or images; map between pp. 486-7 and plates between pp. 532-3 backed with paper for preservation and rehinged, several mispaginations with no loss to text (see above); otherwise a very good copy of this rare first edition; text, plates and maps are clean and crisp., c. 1656, P. (4), blank, frontis, title, blank, dedications (4), preface (7), 1-232, 283-460, 471-732, 743, 724-826, index (12), errata, glossary, (4)., Title in red and black ink. With 63 plates, of which 17 are double-page views and maps (7 maps). In addition, illustrated with a profusion of in-text engravings. Plates are by the famous contemporary engraver, Wesceslaus Hollar.

Armorial bookplate of John Peachey dated 1782; ex-libris of Westdean Library; signature of John Throgmorton Middlemore., Most of the books in this first edition were consumed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 (the year after publication)—this copy must have survived by being taken to another city. It is said that in order to put together this extraordinary work, Dugdale himself scoured every inch of Warwickshire, to the very last hamlet. “Most of the plates are by Hollar, though on many of them his name does not appear,� notes DNB. “The county is described hundred by hundred, and the topography follows as nearly as possible the course of the streams. The bulk of the volume consists of pedigrees and histories of county families, in conjunction with accounts of the the places where they were settled, and of religious and charitable foundations and their founders, all of them remarkable for general accuracy, and accompanied by constant references to authorities.�, Upcott 1247-59; Wing D2479; Lowndes III:687; DNB VI:138.

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