Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$29.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1759. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. hardcover/ full leather. ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles. Full leather boards. Edgewear. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Edward Earl of Clarendon. The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon (Volume 1). Clarendon Press, 1759.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With almost no library markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Octavo hardback, with decoratively speckled cover. Majority of backstrip missing, with a small patch (approx 2cm long) with gilt lettering remaining. Front board slightly loose. Foxing common within. Text is clear and legible. Text on page reverse is visible through the paper. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Octavo, leatherbound. Title patch from spine gone. Front cover detached. Large pieces missing from top and bottom of backstrip. Leather worn. Corners bumped. Age toned pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$416.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The ordinary paper first edition of the diary of the Earl of Clarendon, complete with two parts in three volumes. Life of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, two parts in three volumes, with separate pagination and register, second part titled variant 'The Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon.', present to both volume II, and III, with two indices to the two parts at the end of volume I and III. Volume I with an additional title page '.Volume the first', as featured in CSmH, GOT, QU and Pci. ESTC Reference T55769A rare large paper copy was also issued in the same year, the present group is of the ordinary paper edition.With tail pieces to vol. I.Edward Earl of Clarendon was an English statesman, lawyer, and historian, chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II until 1667, when he fell out of favour and was exiled. He composed his autobiography during his exile, published in 1792 under History of the Rebellion. He donated the manuscripts to Oxford University, and the profits from its publication were used to build a home for the University Press. The 'Clarendon Printing House' still bears his name.From the library of Gerald E. Aylmer, noted English historian specialising in the seventeenth century, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Rebacked in full calf binding, each in a different shade of tan leather to spine, original boards restored. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, minor bumping to extremities of boards. Previous ownership signature to title page of each volume, dated 1772. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~FULL TITLE: The life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellors Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667. Written by himself. Printed from his original manuscripts, given to the University of Oxford by the Heirs of the late Earl of Clarendon. ~8vo (20 x 13 cm). Original speckled calf boards. Rebacked in tan calf, speckled on spine and near-matching boards, plain on boards with uneven boundary of original calf visible. Gilt frames to boards. Raised bands, gilt decor, one red gilt and one black gilt label per spine. Blind decor to board edges. Wear to board edges and corners. Splitting just starting at top front hinge of vol. III (3cm). Some rubbing to boards. 8vos (13.3 x 19.9cm). All edges speckled red, top edges darkened. Replacement endpapers. Hinges sound. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Cracking at gutters after title page of vol. I and before final page of text in vols II & III. Vol. I has two title pages, one for three-vol set and one for vol. I only (attested in ESTC, but scarce). First title page partially detached at base (5cm). Vols II & III each have title page reading 'The continuation of the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, (.) Being a Continuation of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667'. Vol. I has separate pagination; that of Vols. II and III is continuous. Index to rear of vols I & III. Decorative tail-pieces to vol. I. Foxing largely confined to early and late pp. Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon (1609-74), politician and historian. A close advisor to Charles I, Clarendon followed Charles II into exile. After the Restoration in 1660, he rose to power as Lord Chancellor and was created Earl of Clarendon in 1661, but fell from favour and was exiled in 1667. During his exile he composed his autobiography. This was then spliced together with his earlier 'History of the Rebellion', first begun during his earlier pre-Restoration exile, to create the work that was first posthumously published as 'History of the Rebellion' in 1702. Clarendon had left his manuscripts to Oxford University, and the profits from the History were used to build a home for the University Press. The original version of Clarendon's Life was not published until 1759 (these vols), by the 'Clarendon Printing House' that still bears his name. Clarendon's Life is a 'franker' version of the History: 'as it did not have to act as an official defence of the conduct of Charles I, it emphasized even more than the History had done the mistakes in royalist policy and anatomized with some relish the character failings of many of the principal actors' (ODNB). Binding uniform with our 1720-21 edition of Clarendon's History. First edition in original boards. ESTC T55769. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: vi, 264, (10) + 539 + 541-993, (21)pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oxford: At the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759, FIRST EDITION. Three volumes in full leather with gilt titles and decoration to the spine compartments, gilt rules to the boards. A very good set. The ordinary paper first edition of the diary of the Earl of Clarendon, two parts complete in three volumes, two parts in three volumes, with separate pagination and register, second part titled variant 'The Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon.', present to both volume II, and III, with two indices to the two parts at the end of volume I and III. Volume I with a title page 'Volume the first', as featured in CSmH, GOT, QU and Pci. ESTC Reference T55769A rare large paper copy was also issued in the same year, the present group is of the ordinary paper edition. Edward Earl of Clarendon was an English statesman, lawyer, and historian, chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II until 1667, when he fell out of favour and was exiled. He composed his autobiography during his exile, published in 1792 under History of the Rebellion. He donated the manuscripts to Oxford University, and the profits from its publication were used to build a home for the University Press. The 'Clarendon Printing House' still bears his name. Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition green title label, gilt titles, gilt decoration, worn. Joints very good condition rubbed and worn. Corners very good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition leather boards with gilt rules, some wear, marks and scratches. Page edges good condition tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition tanned and foxed. End papers good condition tanned. Title good condition tanned, minor foxing. Pages good condition tanned with minor marks and foxing. Binding very good condition original binding with signs of wear. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1759 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Rare Large Paper Copy. Illustrated with the folio engraving of Clarendon as frontispiece, an engraved and illustrated title-page, beautifully rendered engraved head and tail-pieces, fine 10 line beautifully illustrated historiated initials in each part, engraved and illustrated opening leaf to the second part. A beautifully printed book in rare large paper format. Half-titles are present for both books. Super Folio (450 x 285 mm.), handsomely bound in full contemporary speckled calf, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, red morocco lettering label gilt. [4], iii, 1-133; [2], 1-523, [4 Index to the Life, [7 Index to the Continuation] pp. A very handsome copy, the text-block crisp and quite clean, crisp and fresh, the binding well preserved with a bit of old restoration done to the head of the spine panel, foot of the spine panel shows evidence in one compartment of old damp causing a small portion of the calf to have deteriorated. This can be repaired as one might wish. RARE LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE TRUE FIRST EDITION. A handsome copy of Clarendon's LIFE. Clarendon was the most important of the Royalists, and his HISTORY OF THE REBELLION is a composite work, assembled from material written at various times and in various circumstances, but because it was written with an eye to posterity-- for publication when "the passion, rage and furty of this time shall be forgotten"--it remains a classic. It also includes important biographies of important figures such as Lucius Cary Falkland, Sidney Godolphin, William Laud, and Sir Thomas Wentworth Strafford. Upon his death, Clarendon's writings were presented by his heirs to Oxford University. The proceeds from the sale of his HISTORY were used to establish a press at the University which still bears his name.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.