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Nabu Press, 2011-09-24. Paperback. Good.

, history of Britain in latin, [12], xiv, [4], 277 pages, [33], engraved frontispiece portrait, title page, dedication, letters, errata, advertisement, Eduardi Luidii's [Edward Lhuyd] appendix on the signification of British place names before index at rear, list of subscribers at rear.

London: W. Bowyer, 1719. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Contemporary paneled calf, blind floral roll around inner compartment, fleurons to corners, titled on leather spine label; plain endpapers; [vi],xiv,[4],[1]-277,[27]pp; line-engraved portrait frontispiece. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals, to front pastedown; modern address label mounted to rear pastedown. With list of subscribers at rear. Straight and sound, small losses to leather over boards from worming, both hinges cracked, spine label chipped, internally clean and fresh: Very Good. Baxter, a classicist and antiquary, was "best known" for this dictionary of English antiquities, which "was greeted with some hostility: Thomas Hearne, for one, opined that Baxter built 'wholly upon Fancy, without Authority'" (ODNB). Lowndes notes that this first edition consisted of 350 copies; the ESTC adds that only 240 of these were ordinary paper copies (110 were large-paper copies). LOWNDES v.1 p.133. ESTC… Read More

Londini: W. Bowyer, 1719. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], xiv, [4], 277, [27]; engraved frontis portrait, typographical embellishments throughout, profusion of fonts, including black letter, Greek, Hebrew, Saxon and Roman; Lhwyd's appendix on the signification of British place names; and an 8-p. list of subscribers, including Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, John Evelyn, William Wootton and Sir Hans Sloane; full contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; joints starting, extremities rubbed, old pencil annotations in Welsh on flyleaf; good and sound, unrestored. "In 1719 [Baxter] published his dictionary of British antiquities ... an erudite work [to which is] prefixed a fine portrait of the author by Virtue after Highmore" (DNB). Kennedy 1547, noting also edition of 1731 and 1733. Scarce. Lowndes notes that only 350 copies were printed.