Trevelyan papers. Part II

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8vo. pp. vii, 139. Signatures: [A]4 B-T4. Rebound. Book label of Wandsworth Public Library on front pastedown. Stamp of Battersea Public Libraries on verso of title page. John Payne Collier’s long-awaited continuation of the first part of the Trevelyan papers (prior to A.D. 1558; London, 1857, see Bib# 4117172/Fr# 994 in this collection), documenting the Trevelyan family but containing many mistakes and forged additions. A third part, edited by the cousins Sir Walter and Sir Charles Trevelyan, would be published in 1872 (see Bib# 4117335 /Fr# 1177). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 894-897, 947, A104. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.