The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself, Vol. 5: Collected from His Diaries and Other Papers; Indexe PDF Download

Author: Anthony Wood
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666044693
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself, Vol. 5: Collected From His Diaries and Other Papers; Indexes The indexes, which complete Wood's Life and Times, are longer and more minute than might have been expected from the nature of the work. The volumes contain over 1900 pages to be indexed, and in them quite an exceptional number of names. In his earlier years Wood's keenest interest was in genealogy. During the last fifteen years of his life, he was collecting biographical notices for his Athenae and Fasti. From first to last, therefore, he was tempted to bring into his personal papers a multitude of names of authors, ecclesiastics, gentry, peers, as also of names of places, with which no other Oxford resident would have burdened his diaries. The bare indexes of persons and places are thus very much heavier than we' might have looked for in the record of an uneventful life of sixty-three years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.