1902-1905 The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition. Complete in twelve volumes. 

Uniformly bound in the original paper covered boards, with spine labels to each.

'The Ancestor' was a quarterly review issued between 1902-1905 that offered essays on family and county histories, heraldry, and other fascinating antiquities. 

Edited by Oswald Barron, a journalist and scholar on heraldic and genealogical subjects. 

Each volume is richly illustrated with monochrome plates and accompanied by publisher's advertisements to the rear, as detailed below. 

With a wide variety of contents, including 'Fifteenth Century Costume', 'An Ancient Scottish Settlement in Hesse', 'Notes on some Durham Families', 'The Percys of Northumberland' and much more. 

The entirety of the set comprises the following:

Volume I - April 1902. With a coloured frontispiece, twenty-three plates and an array of in-text illustrations. Eight leaves of advertisements to rear. 

Volume II - July 1902. With a frontispiece, eighteen plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Eight leaves of advertisements.

Volume III - October 1902. With a coloured frontispiece, nineteen plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Four leaves of advertisements. 

Volume IV - January 1903. With a coloured frontispiece, twenty-one plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Five leaves advertisements. 

Volume V - April 1903. With a frontispiece, thirteen plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Four leaves of advertisements. 

Volume VI - July 1903. With a frontispiece, twenty-three plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Three leaves of advertisements. 

Volume VII - October 1903. With a frontispiece, twenty-eight plates and numerous in-text illustrations. With seven leaves of publisher's advertisements to the front and five to the rear. 

Volume VIII - January 1904. With a frontispiece, two full page illustrations and twenty-three plates. Two leaves of advertisements. 

Volume IX - April 1904. With a frontispiece and thirty-two plates. Three leaves of advertisements. 

Volume X - July 1904. With a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Two leaves of advertisements. 

Volume XI - October 1904. With a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Four leaves of advertisements. 

Volume XII - January 1905. With a frontispiece, eighteen plates and numerous in text illustrations. Four leaves of advertisements. 

Collated, complete.