Bliss, Philip, ed., RELIQUIAE HEARNIANAE: THE REMAINS OF THOMAS HEARNE, M.A., OF EDMUND HALL. London: John Russell Smith, 1869. 

3vol. set complete, ½ leather marbled paper hardcovers w/gilt titling and furniture to spine only, 8vo (7.75x4.75”), t.e.g., good+/n.a., vol.1, 320pp.; vol.2, 320pp.; vol.3, 358pp. Spines rubbed head and tail, more so at the tails, some edge wear, joints are worn but not cracked, very lightly soiled in the preliminaries, previous owner’s bookplate lightly glued to the front paste-downs of each volume, otherwise quite nice indeed, no significant foxing. 

"Reliquiae Hearnianae" is a collection of extracts from the diaries of Thomas Hearne (1678–1735), an English antiquary. Edited by Philip Bliss and first published in 1857.  This is the second, and expanded 1869 edition, it offers insights into Hearne’s life, medieval society and Oxford University in 17th–18th-century England. A key resource for historians, it reflects his scholarly and personal observations – quite the Capture of Tyme indeed; a very distinctive trio.