Anglo-Norman Antiquities Considered in a Tour Through Part of Normandy. By Doctor Ducarel. Illustrated with twenty-seven copper plates Doctor (andrew

Anglo-Norman Antiquities Considered in a Tour Through Part of Normandy. By Doctor Ducarel. Illustrated with twenty-seven copper plates

Author	Doctor (Andrew Coltee) Ducarel
Publisher	London: Printed for the author, by T. Spilsbury, , 1767
Edition
Weight	2900 gram
CF	DNB VI, 84-86; Lowndes 680; Pollen I, 453; Kat. Ornamentstichlg. Bln 2517; Cox I, 132.
Keywords	antiquit�s, Antiquary, Normandy, Normandie, Caen, archaeologie, travelogue, architecture, Henry VIII, Francois I, Rouen, Lambeth Library, William the Conqueror, Bayeux, tapestry, antiquities
Booknumber	21446
Category's	Old & Rare (18th Century) Travel & Geography (Europe) History & Archaeology (Middle Ages) History & Archaeology (Europe) Art (Europe) Art (Middle Ages) Art (Renaissance) Art (18th Century) History & Archaeology (18th Century) Art (Architecture) Art (Religious) Art (Tapestries & Textiles) Art (Prints & Graphic Art) Travel & Geography (18th Century)
Folio (30 x 45 cm). Pp. (2), x, 104, (2), 61, (2) + 20 plates (of which 3 folding) outside of text and 7 text-engravings. Full calf, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt-lettered title-shield.With an index. Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-1785) was a famous antiquary and fellow of those societies at London, , Cortona, Cassel and Edinburgh; in 1757 he was appointed keeper of the library at Lambeth. Though he was born in Normandy, Ducarel was educated in England and became an enthusiastic student of antiquities (DNB: �From his youth he was devoted to the study of antiquities and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London as early as 1737�). His antiquarian activities were seriously impeded by the complete blindness of one eye and the weakness of the other. He made this trip through Normandy in 1752, together with Dr. Bever, in order to inspect its antiquities. He published the accocunt of this trip anonimously as �A Tour through Normandy, described in a letter to a friend�, in a small volume in 1754, however without illustrations. This 1767-edition, under his own name, is the second, revised edition, with an expanded text and moreover, illustrated with copper-engravings ( 20 plates outside of text and 7 text-engravings � the proud number 27 is a bit of an exaggeration). This edition was dedicated to the Right Reverend Charles, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, President of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The first head-vignette is a map of Normandy, the second gives a view of Caen. Typographic title-page. Ducarel�s work was a sensation and, as the work is very informative on the medieval architecture of Normandy, as well on its topography and history, it induced many scientists from both sides of the Channel for more than a century to study the antiquities and history of Normandy, connected with the period of William the Conqueror (Hoefer XIV, 917) The work has 4 appendices: 1. A Description of the Tapestries remaining in the Cathedral of Bayeux. By Smart Lethieullier (now first published from his original Manuscript). With 6 full-page engravings (of which 1 folding). 2. Infeudationes Militum qui debent Servitia Militaria Duci Normaniae &c. Ex Libro Rubeo Scaccarii. 3. A Description of the Basso Relievos representing the Interview of Henry VIII. King of England, with Francis I. of France, between Guines and Ardres in Picardy, on the 7 June, 1520. From Father Montfaucon�s Monumens de la Monarchie Fran�oise. (with 2 folding engravings of these bas-reliefs at Rouen). 4. A copy of the Appointments for King Henry VIII. and his Queen, at the Interview with the French King between Guines and Ardres, as inserted in the Original Convention concluded between the Two Monarchs &c. Copied from a manuscript in the Lambeth Library. A french translation by A. L. L�chaud� d�Anisy of this work �Antiquit�s anglo-normandes de Ducarel� was published in 1823 - 25 by Mancel of Caen (in 8-vo, with 36 plates of the tapestry). We join a small booklet (16 pages with the original printed wrappers) by L�Abb� de la Rue: R�ponse du traducteur des antiquit�s anglo-normandes de Ducarel au Post-Scriptum, imprim� � la fin des recherches sur la Tapisserie de Bayeux. Caen, L�Imprimerie T. Chalopin, 1827. 8-vo, pp. 16, original wrappers. Leaves browned and stained. Leather of spine and corners renewed. Stained in places and engravings somewhat browned, but a very good copy, complete with all engravings.. An important work, complete with all the fine plates.
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Anglo-Norman Antiquities Considered in a Tour Through Part of Normandy. By Doctor Ducarel. Illustrated with twenty-seven copper plates

Doctor (Andrew Coltee) Ducarel