DYER, G. History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge; including Notices Relating to the Founders and Eminent Men. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees et al., 1814. 2 vols., 8vo (213 x 128mm.) Engraved frontispieces, additional engraved title to vol. 1, engraved plates, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Heavily browned and spotted preliminaries, thereafter scattered spotting.) Contemporary brown full calf, gilt borders, red and green morocco lettering pieces (minor staining, lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Thackeray (bookplate to front pastedowns); Christ’s Hospital (presentation plate to front pastedowns and bookplate to front-free endpapers). – And a further thirteen volumes (including Thomas Pennant’s ‘Some Account of London’, 1793, third edition, 4to, and C. Julius Caesar’s ‘Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey’, translated by Martin Bladen, 1750, seventh edition, 8vo, and Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, ‘The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England’, 3 vols. in 6, 1807, 8vo) (15).