The Historie of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their Originals, Manners, Habits, Warres, Coines, and Seales : with the Successions, Lives, Acts, and Issues of the English Monarchs from Julius Caesar, unto the Raigne of King James, of famous Memorie.
London: Printed by John Dawson for George Humble, 1632. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Folio. (22) 1042pp., 1043-1086 leaves, 1087-1237, [85]pp. Contemporary calf (backed in brown buckram), manuscript lettering in white at spine. Frontispiece portrait engraving of John Speed by S. Savery (mounted). Title page with publisher's device and double frame. Decorative and historiated head- and endpieces, and initials. Revised, enlarged, and newly corrected, with sundry descents of the Saxon Kings, their marriages and arms. All pages framed in black with marginalia. A catalog of the religious houses, colleges, etc., in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts and genealogical tables throughout, including coins, coats of arms, crests, royal seals, etc.
Covers scuffed and worn at edges. Inked name on inside front cover; hinges reinforced with cream cloth tape. Frontispiece mounted and reinfored on verso at edges, slightly ragged at gutter (not affecting portrait or text). Few repairs with small pieces of tape in margins, not affecting text. Last leaf of index reinforced with paper strip along fore-edge on front, lettering slightly obscured on verso. Block lightly age-toned. Binding in overall fair, interior in good+, engraving and woodcuts in very good condition.
Third edition (a variant of the 1631 edition), published as a continuation of the author's Theatre of Great Britaine, both works being listed in the table of contents. The foliated section (ff. 1043-1086) contain A Catalogue of the Religious Houses, Colleges, and Hospitals Sometimes in England and Wales (running title). Good-. Item #53668
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