Notitia Monastica: Or, An Account of all the Abbeys, Priories, and Houses of Friers, Formerly in England and Wales (…) Now Reprinted with Many Additions, by James Nasmith

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~20th-century rebinding in half tan calf, marbled paper to boards. Raised bands, blind decor, and black gilt label to spine. Hinges sound. Folio (27 x 26.2cm). Replacement endpapers. Library stamp of The Friary, Olton, to blank front endpages and title page (Olton Friary, founded in 1873 as the Diocesan Seminary College of St Bernard and became the Franciscan Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in 1889). Repair to closed tear (c. 7cm) to top margin of final 2 leaves of text, slightly affecting text. 3pp. corrigenda to rear. Frontis port & 3 plates of coats of arms. Text printed in double columns. Mild offsetting to t.p. from frontis; a very few scattered spots of foxing. Preface xlpp.; rest of vol. unpaginated. Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), bishop of St Asaph and antiquary; his Notitia monastica, intended as an updating of Dugdale’s 1655-73 Monasticon Anglicanum, was first published in 1695. A revised version, begun by Tanner and completed by his brother, was published in 1744; this edition was then further revised and enlarged by James Nasmith for the present 1787 edn. Nasmith (bap. 1740, d. 1808) was himself a respected clergyman-antiquary; his revised edition of Notitia monastica was among his principal works. Scarce; many copies of the 1787 edition were lost in a fire in 1808. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs.