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MANSHIP Henry (c.1550-1625). The History of Great Yarmouth ... edited by Charles John Palmer . Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall, 1854. [ Bound With :] PALMER, Charles John (1805-1882). The History of Great Yarmouth Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town . Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall, 1856. [ And :] Repertory of Deeds and Documents relating to the Borough of Great Yarmouth ... printed by order of the Town Council [One Hundred Copies] . Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall, 1855. [ And :] A Catalogue of Pictures ... in the possession of Charles John Palmer . Great Yarmouth: Charles Sloman, 1857.
MANSHIP Henry (c.1550-1625). The History of Great Yarmouth ... edited by Charles John Palmer . Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall, 1854. [ Bound With :] PALMER, Charles John (1805-1882). The History of Great Yarmouth Designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town . Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall, 1856. [ And :] Repertory of Deeds and Documents relating to the Borough of Great Yarmouth ... printed by order of the Town Council [One Hundred Copies] . Great Yarmouth: Louis Alfred Meall, 1855. [ And :] A Catalogue of Pictures ... in the possession of Charles John Palmer . Great Yarmouth: Charles Sloman, 1857. 4 works bound in 4 volumes together with 8 pamphlets and a substantial quantity of printed ephemera, 2° (394 x 281mm). 4pp. subscribers' list to second work. 17 plates (of 20 listed in the contents, lacking frontispiece and third plate to first work and sixth plate from the second), but the original 4° format window-mounted with single black rule frame to larger size and the whole EXTENSIVELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with additional title to each volume reading: History of Gt. Yarmouth to the Year 1619 ... edited and continued up to the present time by C. J. Palmer ... inlayed and illustrated [unique copy] . The additional material comprises: engraved portrait frontispiece of the author ('Private Plate. Proof '); author's bookplate printed on vellum; presentation label from Meall, and vignette of Meall's bookshop; 8 maps, 3 in manuscript; 248 engravings, of which 5 hand-coloured and one folding; 56 lithographic plates, of which 7 hand-coloured and 21 tinted; 42 original drawings; 27 original watercolours; 90 watercolour coats-of-arms, 2 full-page; 158 autograph letters and documents; 19 facsimile reprints; specimen leaves, newspaper cuttings, reviews & other printed ephemera; 17 manuscript family trees; 17 photographs, one textile sample (Wellington relic); one woodcut and 2 illuminated manuscript leaves, the majority window-mounted. (Occasional light spotting, two plates heavily affected.) Contemporary green morocco tooled in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, hinges sometime reinforced). Provenance : CHARLES JOHN PALMER (engraved armorial bookplates) -- circular engraved armorial bookplates. EDITOR'S OWN COPY OF ONE OF 10 'INDIA PROOF' COPIES, UNIQUELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Henry Manship was almost certainly born in Great Yarmouth. In 1612 he reorganised the borough's documents and archives and used his extensive knowledge of these sources to compile his History in 1619. However, it was not published until 1854 when local antiquary, Charles John Palmer 'transcribed it from a then-extant manuscript copy. No original copies are now known. Manship's History is remarkable for the breadth of its research in authorities both contemporary and ancient, its critical use of source material, and its polemical support for the rule of magistrates and the law' (ODNB). Palmer came from an established Great Yarmouth family. The present 'grangerised' copy is Palmer's own copy, extensively enhancing Manship's work with the use of original documents, letters and illustrations: the numerous autograph letters include a complete series of royal signatures from James I to George IV, documents with the signatures of Lord Protector Somerset, Samuel Pepys, and many figures of the Civil War and Protectorate. (4)