The 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.
Contributors: Huddesford, William, 1732-1772.; Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790.; Hearne, Thomas, 1678-1735.; Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.; Fletcher, James, 1710-1795, bookseller.; Fletcher, James, d. 1798, bookseller.; Pote, Joseph, 1704-1787, bookseller.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Trollope, A. B., signer.; Oxford University Press,
Publisher: Printed at the Clarendon Press for J. and J. Fletcher... and Joseph Pote ...
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Subjects: Leland, John, -- 1506?-1552; Hearne, Thomas, -- 1678-1735; Wood, Anthony à, -- 1632-1695; Authors, English; England -- Antiquities
Other titles: Lives of Leland, Hearne & Wood.
Notes: Part II of Volume 1 has special t. p.: The life of Mr. Thomas Hearne ... from his own manuscript copy ... Oxford, 1772.

Edited by W. Huddesford and T. Warton. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints, NL 0419285.

Signatures: Volume I: A-P4, (gothic)A-O4, *A-*C4, a2, A-P4, Q6, R-T4; Volume II: a4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ddd4, Eee2, *A-*H4.

Signature D2, Volume I part 2, p. 27, misprinted as E2.

Includes index following each biography.

Errata, p. 21 fol. first index, vol. I; "Corrections" fol. Preface, vol. II; "Corrections", last page, vol. II.

"Advertisement", p. 106-111 in volume I actually a bibliography.

WSU MASC copy signed "A. B. Trollope[,] Beverley 1872" on title page of each volume.

WSU MASC copy is: 002-112612015, v. 1 ; 002-112612023, v. 2.
Table of contents: title: 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 & search of John Leylande ... Emprented at London, 1549]; II. A summary account of the said J. Bale. pt. II. The life of Mr. Thomas Hearne.; title: vol. II. The life of Mr. Anthony à Wood.