1888 Publications of the Camden Society

Description

Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

All volumes are in the publisher's original cloth bindings. 

'Costumals of Battle Abbey in the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II' (1887) Edited by S R Scargill-Bird; 'De Antiquis Legibus Liber Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum' (1846); 'The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston' by Thomas William Bramston (1846); 'The Political Songs of England' by Thomas Wright (1839); 'The Domesday of St Pauls' by William Hale Hale (1858); 'Letters Relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries' (1843); 'Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester: Chetham Popery Tracts Part I' (1859);  'A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts for and Against Popery' Part II (1865); 'A History of the Chantries Volume I' (1862) by Rev F R Raines; 'The History of the Chantries Volume II (1862). 

Prior owner's inscription to the front pastedown of 'Custumals'. Bookplate to front pastedown of 'The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston'; Prior owner's inscription to the front pastedown of 'Political Songs', A F Pollard'. 

These volumes were published by the Camden Society, a text publication society founded in London in 1838. The Camden Society's mission was to publish early historical and literary materials.