Author: CARACCIOLI (Charles):
Title: The Antiquities of Arundel; The Peculiar Privilege of its Castle and Lordship; With an Abstract of the Lives of the Earls of Arundel, From the Conquest to this Time. By the Master of the Grammar-School at Arundel. By the Master of the Gramar-School at Arundel.
Description: London: Printed for the Author; and sold by G. Robinson and T. Robets...[inter alia] 1766. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 205 x 123 mms., pp. [vi], 276 [277 - 280 list of subscribers], with two dedication leaves, one to the Duke of Norfolk and a second to Edward Howard, the heir apparent to the Duke of Norfolk. The lopographer Charles Caraccioli (1722 - ?1783), though born in Le Mans, moved to England in the 1750s and published a number of books thereafter. Since there was no grammar school at Arundel in 1766, his self-description is a bit dubious. The work was reviewed in The Monthly Review for 1766: "The antiquities of Arundel employ but few pages of this volume; which is chiefly filled with Memoirs of the Earls of Arundel.... With respect to the work before us, however, it may afford amusements to those, who having some acquaintance with the town and castle of Arundel, in their present state, may be desirous of improving that acquaintance with an intimacy with the history and antiquities of the place: especially the history of those great men who have borne the title of Earls of Arundel; in which there are some entertaining anecdotes."

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