Horda Angel-cynnan: Or A Compleat View Of The Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, &c. Of The Inhabitants Of England, from the Arrival of the Saxons, till the Reign of Henry the Eighth. With A Short Account Of The Britons, during the Government of the Romans. In Two Volumes. By Joseph Strutt, Author of the Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities Of England. Vol. I. (-III.) ...
London:: Sold by Benjamin White, at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street., MDCCLXXV.
Physical Description
3 vols.; 285 mm. (Quarto.)
General Note
Vol. I: [iv], iv, [ii], 112 p., 67 pl. Errata slip inserted after p.112. - Vol. II: [iv], 129, [3] p., 60 pl. - Vol. III: [iv], 192, [10]p., 30 pl. Errata slip inserted after p. [10].
Contents
Vol. I; [T.p., dedic.] - Preface - Table Of The Principal Heads contained in the First Volume - [Text] - Some Account of the Principal Manuscripts From which the materials for the Plates in this Volume are collected; The Description of the Plates [on pl. I-LXVII] - Errata [slip] - [Plates]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - Table Of The Principal Heads ... - [Text] - Account of the principal MSS; Description of the Plates [on pl. I-LX] - Vol. I (II) [list of plates] - An Index for finding the Illuminations and Manuscripts mentioned in the First (Second) Volume ... by John Fenn - [Plates]. - Vol. III: [T.p.] - Preface - Table Of The Principal Heads - [Text] - Account of the Manuscripts From which the Plates of this Volume are collected; Description of the Plates [on pl. I-XXX] - Compleat Index To The First (-Third) Volume - Erratum, Addendum [slip] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The plates are not signed.
Volume III carries the imprint, 'For Walter Shropshire ...'.
The work is dedicated by Joseph Strutt to 'Margaret Cavendish, Dutchess Dowager of Portland'.
References
ESTC, T75203
R. Colas, Bibliographie Générale Du Costume (1933; repr.). no. 2821, col. 1004.
R. Sweet, Antiquaries (2004).
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
20th-century red morocco, gilt-tooled on upper and lower covers and spine; spine lettered, 'Manners of England Strutt Vol. I (-III) R.A. 1775 (-1776)'.
Subject
British - Social life and customs - Costume - Dress - Paintings, British - Great Britain - History
Manuscripts - Illumination - History
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century