ANTIQUARIAN STUDIES FOR RESTORATION SCHOOLBOYS
GOODWIN, Thomas.
Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel’d, and divers obscure phrases explained. For the use of Abingdon School. Newly revised and enlarged by the authour.
London, R.W. for Peter Parker, 1661.
[Bound with:]
GOODWIN, Thomas. Moses and Aaron. Civil and Ecclesiastical rites used by the ancient Hebrews … The tenth edition. London, S. Griffin for Andrew Crook, 1671.
[and:]
ROUS, Francis, and Zachary BOGAN. Archaeologicae Atticae libri septem Seven books of the Attick Antiquities … With an Addition of their customs … by Zachary Bogan, Scholar of C.C.C. in Oxon. The eigth [sic] edition corrected and enlarged … Oxford, Hen. Hall for Rc. Davis, 1675.
Three works bound in one vol., small 4to, pp. [6], 270, [20]; pp. [8], 264 (i.e. 270), [10]; pp. [12], 349, [9]; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; a fine, unsophisticated volume, bound in contemporary speckled calf, covers tooled with double fillet in blind, spine with raised bands divided into five compartments, morocco spine label, speckled edges; purchase note to front endpaper of Tho. Tattersall, eighteenth-century armorial bookplate of John Wallop, Viscount Lymington.
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Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities wherein many Roman and English offices are parallel’d, and divers obscure phrases explained. For the use of Abingdon School. Newly revised and enlarged by the authour.
A wholly unsophisticated Restoration sammelband of three popular seventeenth-century schoolbooks.
The first two works, often found bound together, are a compendium of Roman antiquities and a study of the customs and religious rites of the ancient Jews, originally published in 1614 and 1625 respectively, by the headmaster and scholar Thomas Goodwin (1587–1642). Goodwin graduated MA in 1609 at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later became the first fellow of the newly founded Pembroke College, Oxford (1624). He wrote both works while headmaster of Abingdon School in Berkshire, and in his letter to the reader in Romanae Historiae Anthologia, claims that if the book is well received, it should be ascribed to the frequent questioning of the students (‘puerorum crebris interrogatiunculis’); but should the work be less appreciated, the reader should blame the frequent whispered chatters of the boys who surrounded the author (‘puerorum crebris circumscrepentium susurris’).
The third work, Archaeologicae Atticae, originally published in 1637, is a synopsis of Athenian history, civil and religious customs by Francis Rous (c. 1581–1659), Oxford-educated Puritan author and Provost of Eton from 1644 to 1659, and Zachary Bogan (1625–1659), fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. All three works remained standard schoolbooks well into the eighteenth century, and are frequently found bound together, in combinations of various editions.
Provenance: purchase note (7s 6d) of Thomas Tattersall, likely the son of Robert Tattersall who matriculated at St Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1672 (BA 1676, MA 1685), who later had ecclesiastical posts in Wiltshire; bookplate of John Wallop, second Viscount Lymington (1718–1749), or of his son, later Earl of Portsmouth.
ESTC R19791, R1855, and R32408; Wing G 989, G 980, and R 2040.