JOHN AUBREY AND HIS FRIENDS

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948 BLACK COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH AN INDEX IN THE BACK. FRONTISPIECE IS A PICTURE OF AUBREY.NINE ILLUSTRATIONS, EIGHT MAIN CHAPTERS COVERING PERIODS FROM 1626 TO 1697. TWO APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PEDIGREES. VERY INTERESTING DETAIL OF A FAMOUS ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE; 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English. John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief Lives, his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.