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DESIDERATA CURIOSA

OR A

COLLECTON

OF DIVERS

SCARCE AND CURIOUS PIECES

RELATING CHIEFLY TO MATTERS OF

ENGLISH HISTORY

CONSISTING or

CHOICE TRACTS, MEMOIRS, LETTERS, WILLS, EPITAPHS,

TRANSCRIBED, MANY OF THEM, FROM THE ORIGINALS THEMSELVES, AND THE REST

FROM DIVERS ANTIENT MS. COPIES, OR THE MS. COLLECTIONS OF SUNDRY

FAMOUS ANTIQUARIES AND OTHER EMINENT PERSONA, BOTH

OF THE LAST AND PRESENT AGE

THE WHOLE, AS NEAR AS POSSIBLE, DIGESTED INTO AN ORDER OF TIME, AND ILLUSTRATED

WITH AMPLE NOTES, CONTENTS, ADDITIONAL DISCOURIES, AND A COMPLETE INDEX.

BY FRANCIS PECK, M. Α.

RECTOR OF GODEBY NEAR MELTON IN LEICESTERSHIRE

ADORNED WITH CUTS

A NEW EDITION, GREATLY CORRECTED, WITH SOME MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF

MR. PECK.

VOL L

VOL. II

LONDON PRINTED FOR THOMAS EVANS IN THE STRAND.

MOCCLXXIX (1779)

Two volumes, bound in one.

Rebacked with leather spine and contemporary leather boards retained. Measuring approx. 31.2cm x 25.2cm x 5.4cm. The leather is a little grubby and unevenly faded. Corners little chipped and bumped. Extremities rubbed. Internally, marbled endpapers to front and rear, the front of which has armorial bookplate. Little faint pencil detail and ink mark to front blank and free endpaper verso. Some pale offsetting to title page. Pale scattered foxing to some sections and in places (a few leaves have darker spots, see photos). A couple of small dark or rust spots. Little offsetting to leaves adjacent leaves. Little light finger soiling/grubbiness. A few tiny marginal nicks. One leaf has closed marginal tear. Tiny ink correction to subscribers leaf. A few leaves are a little roughly trimmed to edges. Occasional pale mark, else overall the majority of contents are in reasonably clean and firm condition for age.

Frontis xvii [7] 238 [10] vi [10] 239-581 [9]

Engraved frontispiece portrait, and there are 9 further engraved plates, as called for, as well as several wonderful engraved decorative devices.

An influential two-volume compilation of historical documents, relating to the 17th & 18th Centuries. Volume I, amongst other articles, famously contains a large biography of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, as well as memoirs, letters, wills, and epitaphs. Volume II contains a further 150 articles, several of which relate to Charles I, and the English Civil War era.

Edited by the English antiquarian and clergyman Francis Peck, published posthumously and features added biographical memoirs of Peck's life and corrections.

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