Curialia : or, An historical account of some branches of the royal houshold &c., &c. Volume I. Consisting of three parts
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Type of record: Book
Title: Curialia : or, An historical account of some branches of the royal houshold &c., &c. Volume I. Consisting of three parts
Classmark: BC Gen q/PEG
Creator(s): Pegge, Samuel (1733-1800)
Publisher: Printed by J. Nichols, and sold by B. White and son [etc.]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1791
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 p.l., v-vi, 7-78, vii, 126, 133 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280350
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001168149705181
Description
The 3 parts have special title-pages dated, 1782, 1784, 1791 respectively.
The complete work (1791-1803) contains 5 parts, 4-5 of which are edited by John Nichols. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue, Dict. nat. biog.
Errata leaf bound between pp. [iv]-v of Pt.1.
Contents: v.l, pt.I. Two dissertations... I. On the obsolete office of the esquires of the king's body. II. On the original nature, duty, &c. of the gentlemen of the king's most honourable privy chamber.--pt.II. A memoir ... regarding the king's honourable band of gentlemen pensioners, from its establishment to the present time.--pt.III. A memoir ... respecting the king's body-guard of yeomen of his guard, from its institution, A.D. 1485.
Additional description
Part-title to Pt.1 is wanting. Phrases heavily blacked out on pp.21-22, 60 and 77 of Pt.2, with occasional MS. corrections of single words in text. Library label of W.T. Freemantle pasted inside front cover
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