The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset: compiled from The best and most ancient Historians, Inquisitiones post Mortem, and other valuable Records and mss. in the Public Offices, and Libraries, and in private Hands. With a copy of domesday book and the inquisitio gheldi for the County: interspersed with Some remarkable Particulars of natural history; and adorned with A Correct map of the county, and views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, &c. In two volumes

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Two volumes. With the subscribers' list sometimes discarded; [12], lxxx, 24, xxix, 8, 12, [618]; [4], 528, 61pp, [1]. With 10 folding pedigrees, a portrait of the author, the folding map of the county, and 59 engraved plates (a full five further plates than are called for in the indexed list, including a charming north east view of Dorchester, and another of Woolcombe Hall, seat of Laurence Cox, both of which are also found in other copies). A well-margined, uncut copy in contemporary half gilt-tooled diced-calf, marbled boards. Worn and rubbed, with loss to spines, largely at foot, and surface of boards. A very few red damp-staining spots to volume one, slight consequent softening to margins, some creasing to preliminaries, RFEP of Vol. II detached. Neat repair to verso of margin of portrait frontis., the first plate in Vol. II laid down, and occasional tears to folds of a very few plates; small paper flaw to p.375, Vol. II. William Lisle Bowles' copy, with his inscription to the title and final leaves of Vol. I, and occasional neat family annotations to several leaves. An uncut copy of the monumental first edition of the definitive history of Dorset. Produced by antiquary and Anglican clergyman, sometime rector of Holy Trinity, Wareham, John Hutchins (1698-1773), at the suggestion and encouragement of Jacob Bancks and Browne Willis. Compiled over some three decades, this first edition (in two volumes) was published in the year following Hutchins' death; subsequent posthumous editions (with different editors) extended the work into further volumes. One of just 600 copies printed, this copy is inscribed by Church of England clergyman and poet William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), who inherited Barton Hill House, Shaftesbury, from his father William Thomas Bowles. This is presumably the latter's subscriber's copy ('Rev. Thomas Bowles, M.A. Shaston'). ESTC T99476. Size: Folio. N° de ref. del artículo AQ23057

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