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Edward Davies

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British Antiquities.- Davies (Edward) Celtic Researches, on the Origin, Traditions & Language, of the Ancient Britions, for the Author, 1804; The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, folding engraved plate, 1809, together 2 vol., first editions, engraved bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft, uniform contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints split § Fairholt (F.W.) & Thomas Wright. Miscellanea Graphica: Representations of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Remains in the Possession of Lord Londesborough, additional engraved pictorial title with hand-coloured vignette, 45 plates, some chromolithographed and heightened with gold, guards, final leaf defective with loss to 'Finis' at foot, some foxing, 1857 § Smith (C.R., editor) Inventorium Sepulchrale..., engraved portrait and 20 plates, 7 hand-coloured, illustrations, marginal water-staining at beginning and end, ex-library copy with one or two stamps, for subscribers only, 1856, the last two original cloth, rubbed, the last damp-stained and lacking spine; and 6 others on British antiquities, 8vo & 4to (10)