The First Printed Edition of the Domesday Book, Complete Set with All Plates and Title Pages
Domesday-Book, Seu Liber Censualis Willelmi Primi Regis Angliae, Inter Archivos Regni in Domo Capitulari Westmonasterii Asseruatus: Jubente Rege Augustissimo Georgio Tertio Praelo Mandatus Typis.
[London]: [George Eyre and Andrew Strahan], 1783, 1783, 1816 (i.e. 1811), 1816.
Price:
$3,000.00
Only edition. 5 plates, 3 with hand-coloring. 4 vols. Folio. Later quarter starched buckram over cloth, calf lettering pieces to spine, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing, a few scuffs to lettering pieces, corners and spine ends, bumped. Some toning to interiors, faint spotting in places, clean tears to a few leaves. Provenance: General Theological Seminary (bookplates and card pockets to pastedowns, location numbers to spines, markings to versos of title pages). ESTC T97297 (Vols I-II); BMC (Compact Edition) 7:527.
Item #378848
A remarkable achievement produced over a 33 year period, this was the first printed edition of William the Conquerer's unprecedented survey, completed in 1086, of land ownership and property values in England and parts of Wales. Initiated by an act of Parliament in 1770, this project was co-directed by Charles Morton, the principal librarian of the British Museum, and Farley, who, as deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer, was responsible for the public records at the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, which included a copy of the Domesday Book. He became the editor of the edition.
Volume III in our set has the valuable General Introduction by Sir Henry Ellis, a bibliophile, antiquarian, and librarian at the British Museum (later its principal librarian), which wasn't issued with all copies, and the often-lacking title pages to Volumes I and II, which were issued with Volume IV.
Item #378848
A remarkable achievement produced over a 33 year period, this was the first printed edition of William the Conquerer's unprecedented survey, completed in 1086, of land ownership and property values in England and parts of Wales. Initiated by an act of Parliament in 1770, this project was co-directed by Charles Morton, the principal librarian of the British Museum, and Farley, who, as deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer, was responsible for the public records at the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, which included a copy of the Domesday Book. He became the editor of the edition.
Volume III in our set has the valuable General Introduction by Sir Henry Ellis, a bibliophile, antiquarian, and librarian at the British Museum (later its principal librarian), which wasn't issued with all copies, and the often-lacking title pages to Volumes I and II, which were issued with Volume IV.
