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W. J. Johnson. 9022109526 Good+; Hardcover; 1979, W. J. Johnson Publishing; Former library copy with standard library markings; Light wear to covers; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Good binding with straight spine; Red cloth covers with title in gold lettering on a black background; 338 pages; "A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile)," by Richard Verstegan. . Good.
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A restitution of decayed intelligence (The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile)
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A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities, Concerning the Most Noble, and Renowned English Nation
by By the Study, and Travell of R. V. (Richard Verstegan, also known as Richard Rowlands
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London: Printed by John Norton, for Joyce Norton , and Richard Whitaker , 1634. (20), 338, (12) pages.Title-page printed in red and black, with engraving of the Tower of Babel; 10 engravings in text; woodcut ornaments throughout. First published in Antwerp in 1605, the first edition in English 1628, then this the 2nd English edition in 1634. Bound in contemporary calf embossed in blind, marbled end papers, red morocco label in gilt back, Very Good, some scattered early scholarly marginal notations in ink, the book plate of Winifred M. Oliver-Jones front paste down, the boards rubbed, seller's pencil notations and 2 small scholarly clippings concerning the author and the book's contents at front end pages. According to the clipping pasted in at front end page -"A learned work, dealing with the Anglo-Saxons and their German origin; the Danes and Normans; ancient English tongue, with vocabulary; Saxon proper names; surnames; a curious account of were-wolves...". And includes the first…
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A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities Concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation. By the Study and Travel of R.V.
by Richard Verstegan
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London: Samuel Mearne, John Martyn and Henry Herringman, 1673. Title page restored and layed down on acid free tissue paper.2nd leave with marginal reinforcements. Leave (39 & 40) provided in a fine 17th century manuscript . Otherwise a very good copy.. Edition: 6th and last edition. , Binding: Expertly rebacked keeping the original full calf boards with blind rules and floral design corners. Five raised bands in six compartments with tooled gilt lettering on 2. , Notes: Born in London but of Dutch parentage, Verstegen (born Richard Rowlands) specialized early in English history and the study of Anglo-Saxon. Rowland’s other workds were published under the name or initials of Richard Verstegen. The most interesting of them was Restitution of Decaued Intelligence in Antiquities concerning the English Nation, Antwerp 1605, 4to, reprinted inLondon, 1673, 8vo; in this work, dedicated to James I, Verstegen protests his English birth, He gives a summary of the early invations of Great Britain, the…
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A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation.
by VERSTEGAN, Richard.
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London: Printed by Iohn Bill [and John Norton], printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie,, 1628. The origins of England Second edition, the first printed in England following original publication in Antwerp in 1605, of this foundational work of Saxon scholarship. The work contains important material about the Saxons, their language, customs and folklore, some discussion of their Celtic predecessors, and the etymology of Saxon surnames and titles. The first edition contained the earliest recorded telling in English of the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, which is retained in this edition. Historical scholarship prior to Verstegan continued to propagate foundation myths for England, portraying its appearance in history with the mythic founder Brutus of Troy, and held that its modern culture and language was rooted in the pre-Saxon inhabitants. Verstegan's object was to demonstrate, correctly, the descent of the modern English from the Germanic peoples of northern Europe, and that the English…
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