lives of those eminent antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood
Subtitle: with an authentick account of their respective writings and publications, from original papers.  In which are occasionally inserted, memoirs relating to many eminent persons, and various parts of literature.  Also several engravings of antiquity, never before published ...
Publisher: J. and J. Fletcher
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Subjects: Hearne, Thomas, -- 1678-1735.; Leland, John, -- 1506?-1552.; Wood, Anthony à, -- 1632-1695.; England -- Antiquities.
Notes: Part II of v. 1 has special t.-p.: The life of Mr. Thomas Hearne ... from his own MS. copy ...  Oxford, 1772.

Edited by W. Huddesford and T. Warton.

The life of Leland is by Huddesford; the lives of Hearne and à Wood are autobiographical with additions.

PIMS copy contains bookplate with annorial coat of arms of James Devereux Hustler.

PIMS copy gift and bookplate "Ex libris James Kelsey McConica."
Table of contents: value: Vol. I, pt. I. The life of John Leland ... to which is added: I. The antient treatise of Leland's New years gyfte to K. Henry, with the commentaries of J. Bale, first printed in the year 1549 [reprint of The laboryouse journey [and] serche of John Leylande ...  Emprented at London, 1549]; II. A summary account of the said J. Bale.  pt. II. The life of Mr. Thomas Hearne.-  vol. II. The life of Mr. Anthony à Wood.