Item #40726 The New, Comprehensive and Complete History of England: from the earliest period of Authentic Information, to The Middle of the Year, MDCCLXXXII. Containing A full, accurate, comprehensive and impartial Account of all the most remarkable Transactions, memorable Events, and singular Occurrence, in which the English have been concerned, from the Remotest Period of Time, to the Present Very Important Crisis. ... A Genuine Description of the Manners and Customs of the Times. Edward BARNARD.

The New, Comprehensive and Complete History of England: from the earliest period of Authentic Information, to The Middle of the Year, MDCCLXXXII. Containing A full, accurate, comprehensive and impartial Account of all the most remarkable Transactions, memorable Events, and singular Occurrence, in which the English have been concerned, from the Remotest Period of Time, to the Present Very Important Crisis. ... A Genuine Description of the Manners and Customs of the Times...

London. Printed for the Author: and Published by Alex. Hogg. MDCC LXXX II [1782]. Crown Folio, 39cm, iv,5-710,[iv]p., (list of subscribers & 1 page ad), indexed, plus 3 maps (1 folding) and 105 engraved plate illustrations, in half dark brown calf, gilt decorated raised bands, crushed crimson morocco label, gilt titles and decorated borders, matched marbled boards, a fine remarkabily clean copy attractively bound of the rare first edition.(cgc). Item #40726

A detailed early history of England, known particularly for its lavish engravings - especially the later ones covering the American War of Independence; twelve plates starting at page 686. Oxford Dictionary of Biography. V3. - p237. BARNABD, Edward (1717-1781 ), provost of Eton, born in 1717, was the son of a Bedfordshire clergyman. He was on the foundation at Eton, but, becoming superannuated, entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he became B.A. 1738, M.A. 1742, B.D. 1750 and D.D. 1756. He was fellow of his college from March 1743-4 to 1756. In 1752 he was at Eton as tutor to Henry Townshend, brother to Lord Sydney, and he became also tutor to George Hardinge, afterwards Welsh justice, Whose recollections of Barnard are given at length in Nichols's Anecdotes' (viii. 543). Barnard succeeded Sumner as head master of Eton in 1754, and raised the numbers of the school from three hundred to five hundred. He received a canonry of Windsor in 1761, and in 1764 became provost of Eton. He was also rector of St. Pau1's Cray, Kent. He died 2 Dec. 1801. A tablet to his memory, with an inscription, is in Eton College chapel. Barnard, according to Hardinge, was a man of coarse features and clumsy figure, but with a humour and vivacity which, but for his physical disadvantages, would have made him the equal of Garrick; and he ruled his boys chiefly by force of ridicule. Upon Barnard's death Johnson, according to Mrs. Piozzi, pronounced a long eulogium upon his wit, learning, and goodness, and added: He was the only man that did justice to my good breeding, and you may observe that I am well bred to a needless degree of *scrupulosity.' He is not to be confounded with Thomas Barnard, the bishop of Killaloe and Limerick [q. v.], who was also a friend of Johnson.(*Scrupulosity is a psychological disorder primarily characterized by pathological guilt or obsession associated with moral or religious issues that is often accompanied by compulsive moral or religious observance and is highly distressing and maladaptive) and Eulogium, a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently).

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