Extracts from the black book of Warwick. To which are added Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas More's narrative of a religious frenzy at Coventry
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Type of record: Book
Title: Extracts from the black book of Warwick. To which are added Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas More's narrative of a religious frenzy at Coventry
Other titles: Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick
Classmark: BC Gen q/PEG
Related people: More, Thomas; Pegge, Samuel; Brown, Isabelle Kittson; Nichols, John; Carter, John
Publisher: Printed by and for J. Nichols, Printer to to Society of Antiquaries; and sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 42 p., [1] leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280379
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001170799705181
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Final leaf is a singleton.
"Price one shilling and six pence."--T.p.
Half-title: Bibliotheca topographica Britannica. no. XVII. Containing I. Extracts from....II. Memoir on the story....III. Sir Thomas More's.
Later republished as part of v.4, pt.8, of the 10 vol. reprint of this series, published: London : John Nichols, 1790-1800.
Running title for Pt. II, (p. 29-39): Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick.
Running title for Pt. III, (p. 40-42): Letter from Sir Tho. More.
Engraved frontispiece has title: The neglected remains of the statue of Guy Earl of Warwick, in the chapel of Guysclift now a carpenters shop near Warwick. This sketch taken and finished on the spot, July 30, 1782, by J. Carter.
Running title: Mr. Pegge's memoir on Guy Earl of Warwick.
Indexed in: ESTC (RLIN) T079966.
Additional description
Bound with sixteen other publications by Pegge in a volume lettered Dr. Pegge's antiquarian works . Volume contents: 1. The roman roads, 1784. -- 2. Extracts from the black book of Warwick, 1783. -- 3. An historical account of that venerable monument of antiquity, the Textus Roffensis, 1784. -- 4. Sketch of the history of Bolsover and Peak Castles, 1785, -- 5. An historical account of Beauchief Abbey, 1801. -- 6. A series of dissertations on some elegant and very valuable Anglo-Saxon remains, 1756. -- 7. An essay on the coins of Cunobelin, 1766. -- 8. The penny with the name of Rodbertus IV, [1768]. -- 9. Memoir concerning the Sac-Friars, [1776?]. -- 10. An important historical passage of Gildas amended and explained, [1778]. -- 11. An inscription in honour of Serapis, [1776?] -- 12. Observations on a seal of Thomas, [1785]. -- 13. A circumstantial detail of the battle of Lincoln, [1786]. -- 14. Derbeiesseira Romana, [1789]. -- 15. Mr. Pegge's remarks on the bones of fowls, [1776]. --
16. Some observations on the paintings in the window of Brereton Church, 1792. -- 17. Observations on the chariots of the antient Britains, [1785?]. Made-up set (one of 2 vols.), assembled for Pegge's grandson Sir Christopher Pegge by the publisher and antiquary John Nichols. A letter from Nichols to Sir Christopher Pegge, dated March 18th, 1808, is tipped in at the front of the first volume, and supplies information on the collection a fire at Nichols's warehouse apparently destroyed all the remaining stock of Pegge's works, some of the items in these 2 volumes being therefore the sole survivors (unfortunately not indentified by Nichols)
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