John Aubrey Bibliography

Primary Editions

 

Secondary Works

Barker, Nicholas P., John Aubrey’s Brief Lives: A Strange Rare Way of Conserving a Corps (University of Minnesota, Dissertation, 1966).

Beddard, R. A., ‘The Sources of Anthony Wood’s Life of Nicholas Hill’, Archives, 29 (2004), pp. 1–11.

Bennett, Kate, ‘John Aubrey and the “Lives of Our English Mathematical Writers”’, in Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall, eds, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 301–29.

— , ‘John Aubrey, Hint-Keeper: Life-Writing and the Encouragement of Natural Philosophy in the pre-Newtonian Seventeenth Century’, The Seventeenth Century, 22 (2007), pp. 358–80.

—  , ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation of Edmund Waller’s Of a Tree Cut in Paper’, Notes and Queries, 49 (2002), pp. 344–45.

— , ‘John Aubrey, William and Judith Dobson and the 8th Earl of Pembroke: the Provenance of William Dobson’s Executioner with John the Baptist’s Head’, Notes and Queries, 49 (2002), pp. 352–55.

— ,  ‘John Aubrey’s Collections and the Early-Modern Museum’, Bodleian Library Record, 17 (2001), pp. 213–45.

— , ‘Editing Aubrey’, in Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry, eds,  Ma(r)king the Text (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).

— , ‘Shakespeare’s Monument at Stratford: A New Seventeenth-Century Account’, Notes and Queries, 47 (2000), p. 464.

— , ‘John Aubrey’s Oxfordshire Collections: An Edition of Aubrey’s Annotations to his Presentation Copy of Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire’, Bodleian Library Ashmole 1722, Oxoniensia, 64 (1999), pp. 59–86.

— , ‘John Aubrey, Joseph Barnes’s Print-Shop and a Sham Newsletter’, The Library, 21 (1999), pp. 50–58.

— , ‘A New Anthony Wood Manuscript Paper’, Notes and Queries, 45 (1998), pp. 184–86.

— , ‘Material Towards a Critical Edition of John Aubrey’s Brief Lives’ (University of Oxford: DPhil thesis, 1993).

Botelho, Keith M., ‘John Aubrey’, in Alan Hagar, ed., The Age of Milton (London: Greenwood Press, 2004), pp. 14–18.

Buchanan-Brown, John, ‘The Natural History of Herefordshire: John Aubrey’s projected Tract’, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 49 (1999), pp. 378–403.

— , ‘The Books Presented to the Royal Society by John Aubrey, F.R.S.’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 28 (1974), p. 167 ff.

Dorris, George E., ‘Sir Walter Enjoying’, Notes and Queries, 12 (1965), pp. 381–82.

Emery, F. V., ‘English Regional Studies from Aubrey to Defoe’, Geographical Journal, 124 (1958), pp. 315–25.

Enright, B. J., ‘Richard Rawlinson and the Publication of John Aubrey’s Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey’, Surrey Archaeological Collections, 54 (1956), p. 124 ff.

Fellows-Jensen, Gilliam, ‘John Aubrey, Pioneer Onomast?’, Nomina, 23 (2000), pp. 89–106.

Fowles, John, ‘The Great Amateur of Archaeology’, Natural History (August, 1982), pp. 18–24.

Fox, Adam, ‘Aubrey, John (1626-1697)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

— , Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Frank, Robert G., ‘John Aubrey, F.R.S., John Lydall, and Science at Commonwealth Oxford’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 27 (1973), pp. 193–217.

Gordon, Cosmo A., ‘Letter to John Aubrey from George Garden’, Scottish Gaelic Studies, 8 (1955), pp. 18–26.

Gunter, R. T., ‘The Library of John Aubrey, F.R.S.’, Bodleian Quarterly Record, 6 (1931), pp. 230–36. [Reprinted Powell, Aubrey, 2nd ed., Appendix B.]

— , ‘The Ashmolean Copy of Plot’s Natural History’, Bodleian Library Quarterly, 6 (1930), pp. 165–66.

Hunter, Michael, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning (London: Duckworth, 1975).

— , ‘The Bibliography of John Aubrey’s Brief Lives’, Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, 1 (1974), p. 6 ff.

— , ‘The Royal Society and the Origins of British Archaeology’, Antiquity, 65 (1971), pp. 113–21, 187–92.

Jackson, J. E., ‘Aubrey’s Wiltshire Antiquities’, Notes and Queries, 2nd ser., 8 (1859), pp. 467–68.

Kelly, Joseph, ‘A Book from the Libraries of Ben Jonson and John Aubrey’, Seventeenth-Century News, 39 (1981), p. 44.

Kirtly, Bacil F., ‘John Aubrey upon the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford’, Journal of American Folklore, 78 (1965), pp. 64–65.

Kite, Jon Bruce, A Study of the Works and Reputation of John Aubrey (1626–1697) with emphasis on his Brief Lives (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993).

Lewis, Rhodri, ‘The Efforts of the Aubrey Correspondence Group to Revise John Wilkins’s Essay (1668) and their Context’, Historiographia Linguistica, 28 (2001), pp. 333–66.

MacGregor, Arthur G., ‘The Antiquary en plain air: Eighteenth-Century Progress from Topographical Survey to the Threshold of Field Archaeology’, in R. G. W. Anderson, Marjorie Lancaster Caygill, Arthur G. MacGregor, and Luke Syson, eds, Enlightening the British: Knowledge, Discovery and the Museum in the Eighteenth Century (London: British Museum Press, 2003), pp. 164–75.

Moorhead, T.S.N., ‘A Roman Coin Hoard from Wanborough’, in A.S. Anderson, J. S. Wacher, and A.P. Fitzpatrick, eds, The Romano-British ‘Small Town’ at Wanborough, Wiltshire, Appendix 1 (London: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; Britannia Monograph Series, no. 19, 2001), pp. 351–55.

Nicholson, Oliver, ‘Iamblichus in Aubrey’s Miscellanies’, Notes and Queries, 33 (1986), pp. 481–82.

Owen, Patricia, ‘A Revaluation of the Writings of John Aubrey’ (University of Oxford: BLitt thesis, 1954).

Poole, William, John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, forthcoming May 2010).

Powell, Anthony, ‘John Aubrey’s Books I, II’, Times Literary Supplement, 13 (20 January, 1950), pp. 32, 48.

— , John Aubrey and his Friends (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948; new and rev. ed., London: Heinemann, 1963).

Purdon, John James, ‘Aubrey’s Discourse in Paper’, Essays in Criticism, 55 (2005), pp. 226–47.

Turnbull, G. H., ‘Samuel Hartlib’s Acquaintance with John Aubrey’, Notes and Queries, 195 (1950), pp. 31–33.

Tylden-Wright, David, John Aubrey: A Life (London: HarperCollins, 1991).

Turner, A.J., ‘Mathematical Instruments and the Education of Gentlemen’, Annals of Science, 30 (1973), pp. 51–88.

Williams, Earl Melton, John Aubrey’s Templa Druidum: Materials for an Edition (Dissertation, 1978).

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