The Surtees Society — Miscellanea Biographica Oswinus Rex Northumbriae, Cuthbertus Episcopus Lindisfarnensis, Gata Episcopus Haugustaldensis

London; Edinburgh, J.B. Nichols and Son; William Pickering; Laing and Forbes, 1838. First edition. Cloth. A first edition volume of the Surtees Society's biographies of Numtherumberland religious figures. This first edition work collects four biographies of influential figures in Northumberland ecclesial history produced by the Surtees Society. The Surtees Society was founded in the memory of Robert Surtees, a celebrated historian and antiquarian, to publish works relating to the region of the former Kingdom of Northumbria. This volume is the second of their many published works. With library plates to the front pastedown and pencil annotations to the rear free end paper. The lives of Oswinus, Cuthbertus and Gata, influential in the history of religious Northumberland, are chronicled in the short biographies in this volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some chipping to the head and tail of the spine and some fading to the spine and rear board. Internally, generally firmly bound but tender in places. Front hinge loose but holding. Pages are generally bright and clean, with some handling marks in places. Small hole and small tear to front end paper. Some pages uncut. Pencil inscriptions to rear free end paper. Good . Ill.: None. Good .