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Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis. [Wood, Anthony à.] Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1674. 2 vols in 1, large thick folio, with an engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 1 double-page map, 2 illustrations, 23 initials, 23 head-pieces, 9 large woodcut initials by George Edwards. Sumptuously bound by the “Spaniel binder” in English red morocco, the covers with elaborate panelled overall decoration built up from numerous small tools, black morocco onlays, rebacked by Middleton retaining the original backstrip and label. A large- and thick-paper copy magnificently bound. De luxe edition on large (and thick) paper especially used for this version. This magnificent example of Oxford printing was paid for by the great... $6,750.00