Quarto. [8], 420pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Without final blank leaf. Later gilt-tooled sheep. Rubbed, joints split. Small burn hole to text of leaf A4 (without loss of sense), small hole to head of H4, occasional ink and pencil highlighting, scattered spotting. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, inked ownership inscription of J. J. Conybeare to head of FFEP, later biographical note to foot.

A mid seventeenth-century edition, much revised and enlarged by herald John Philipot (c.1589-1645), of historian and herald William Camden's (1551-1623), Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britain, first published in 1605. Whilst indeed without the scope and scale of his Britannia (London, 1585), the Remaines contain a wealth of social, linguistic and literary history of the British Isles and is particularly significant in that it includes the first chronological organisation of medieval English poetry.

John Josias Conybeare (1779-1824), antiquary and Church of England clergyman, elder brother of noted geologist William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857). He was ordained on 13th June 1802, prebendary of York from 1803, and in 1812 became vicar of Batheaston, in Somerset. An early enthusiast for both chemistry and geology, Conybeare established his own laboratory in Oxford in 1804, and published fourteen scientific papers. Following his sudden death, The Society of Antiquaries, which had published a plethora of Anglo Saxon for Conybeare from 1811 to 1823, still felt able to encourage the posthumous publication in 1826 of his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.