[Domesday Book.] [Seu liber censualis Willelmi primi regis Angliae...], edited by Abraham Farley, 2 vol., no title as issued, light browning at beginnings and ends but generally clean, contemporary calf, gilt, red & green labels, rubbed and marked, vol.1 with splits to joints, [printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan], [1783] § Peck (Francis) Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces..., 2 vol. in 1, engraved portrait (lightly creased), titles in red & black with engraved vignette, lists of subscribers, engraved head-pieces, initials and 9 plates, very occasional soiling, contemporary calf, spine gilt, 1732-35 § Lyttelton (Henry, Lord) The History of the Life of King Henry the Second..., 4 vol. including Notes, engraved title-vignettes, some foxing, contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, lacking some labels, 1767-71 § Walpole (Horace) Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces and plates (spotted and offset), contemporary calf, gilt, 1822, all rubbed; and c.10 others, British history, v.s. (c.20)

⁂ The first item is the first printing of the Domesday Book, William I's "Great Survey" of England recording every piece of land with details of its lord, labour and livestock. It was printed in "record type" designed by John Nichols and cut by Joseph Jackson (previously an apprentice to Caslon) to represent the particulars of medieval manuscripts but did not include any supplementary material or indices. These were issued later, in 1816.