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W. J. Johnson. 9022109526 Good+; Hardcover; 1979, W. J. Johnson Publishing; Former library copy with standard library markings; Light wear to covers; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Good binding with straight spine; Red cloth covers with title in gold lettering on a black background; 338 pages; "A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile)," by Richard Verstegan. . Good.

London: Samuel Mearne, John Martyn and Henry Herringman, 1673. Title page restored and layed down on acid free tissue paper.2nd leave with marginal reinforcements. Leave (39 & 40) provided in a fine 17th century manuscript . Otherwise a very good copy.. Edition: 6th and last edition. , Binding: Expertly rebacked keeping the original full calf boards with blind rules and floral design corners. Five raised bands in six compartments with tooled gilt lettering on 2. , Notes: Born in London but of Dutch parentage, Verstegen (born Richard Rowlands) specialized early in English history and the study of Anglo-Saxon. Rowland’s other workds were published under the name or initials of Richard Verstegen. The most interesting of them was Restitution of Decaued Intelligence in Antiquities concerning the English Nation, Antwerp 1605, 4to, reprinted inLondon, 1673, 8vo; in this work, dedicated to James I, Verstegen protests his English birth, He gives a summary of the early invations of Great Britain, the… Read More

London: Printed by Iohn Bill [and John Norton], printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie,, 1628. The origins of England Second edition, the first printed in England following original publication in Antwerp in 1605, of this foundational work of Saxon scholarship. The work contains important material about the Saxons, their language, customs and folklore, some discussion of their Celtic predecessors, and the etymology of Saxon surnames and titles. The first edition contained the earliest recorded telling in English of the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, which is retained in this edition. Historical scholarship prior to Verstegan continued to propagate foundation myths for England, portraying its appearance in history with the mythic founder Brutus of Troy, and held that its modern culture and language was rooted in the pre-Saxon inhabitants. Verstegan's object was to demonstrate, correctly, the descent of the modern English from the Germanic peoples of northern Europe, and that the English… Read More