Antiquitatis Academiae Oxoniensis Apologia. In Tres Libros Divisa

Brian Twyne

Oxoniae : Excudebat Josephus Barnesius, 1608

[The First History of the University of Oxford.] Small quarto.  Bound in modern red leather. Very good binding and cover. Held in green cloth clam shell case. [8], 384, [72] p.  Lacking the frontispiece. Margins moderately browned.  Early Oxford bookplate on front pastedown. Refs: Madan, II, 302.  STC, 24405. ESTC S118780.  "This is the first history of Oxford, and a wonderful performance for a man only twenty-eight years old, even if it be true that Miles Windsor and Thomas Allen helped to supply him with material." - Briggs, Clary Collection 98.