A Register and Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil: Containing Matters of Fact, Delivered in the Words of the Most Authentick Books, Papers, and Records; Digested in Exact Order of Time. With Proper Notes and References. Towards Discovering and Connecting the True History of England, from the Restoration of the King Charles II. Volume One. Faithfully Taken from the Manuscript Collections of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough. London: Printed for R. Williamson, MDCCXXVIII (1728).
Volume one only, but apparently only one volume of this was originally printed (?). We can't trace any copies of a volume two; this edition is very rare and only a few copies are recorded in institutional holdings in WorldCat, each attesting to just the one volume. Still, we have only volume one present here, and it does read 'Vol I' on the spine. It is a beautiful contemporary fine binding.
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Size: 270 x 410 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(2), t.p., 4pp. (dedication), 6pp. (preface), 938pp., 22pp. (index), (1)]
Full brown calf with gilt tooling in compartments to the spine between raised bands. Tooled label lacking. Binding lightly scuffed and rubbed, with discolouration. Small crack down one of the compartments on the spine. Both boards attached with joints and hinges cracked, thus fragile. Shelf and edge wear. Headcap loosely attached. Tailcap partially detached, fragile. No shelf lean. Red page edges dulled, top edge darkened as often. No attached bookplates. Pencil shelf mark to front blank. Text block very clean with light toning and occasional foxing. Endpapers foxed and toned.
Volume one only.
