from Bede to Shakespeare
FULLER, Thomas.
The history of the worthies of England … first printed in 1662. A new edition, with a few explanatory notes.
[London,] printed for F.C. & J. Rivington, T. Payne, Wilkie & Robinson, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Cadell & Davies, R.H. Evans, J. Mawman, J. Murray, and R. Baldwin, 1811.
Two vols, folio, pp. [xvi], 596; 619 [1], with engraved frontispiece portrait; lightly foxed with a few scattered spots, but a very good set; bound in modern morocco-backed boards with red cloth sides, spine lettered directly in gilt; a few light marks.
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The history of the worthies of England … first printed in 1662. A new edition, with a few explanatory notes.
First and only edition of John Nichols’s revision of Fuller’s Worthies of England, with explanatory notes.
Edited in 1811 by the antiquary, author, and printer John Nichols (1745−1826), Fuller’s Worthies of England is the final and best-known literary contribution of the English clergyman and antiquary, Thomas Fuller (1607/8−1661). Fuller’s work, which forms ‘the first English biographical dictionary’ (ODNB) has represented an invaluable source of English history and topography from its publication in 1662 to the present day. The content comprises Fuller’s intricately detailed descriptions of the ‘eminent commodities, which every county doth produce, with the persons of quality bred therein, and some other observables coincident with the same subject’.
Nichols updates the text to include a brief memoir of the author, further explanatory notes, and a general index, alongside Fuller’s comprehensive biographies of the local saints and martyrs, gentry, statesmen, and writers, ranging from Bede to Shakespeare.
