Ancient Funerall Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands Adiacent, with the Dissolued Monasteries Therein Contained: Their Founders, and What Eminent Persons Have Beene in the Same Interred. As Also the Death and Buriall of Certaine of the Bloud Royall; the Nobilitie and Gentrie of These Kingdomes Entombed in Forraine Nations. [...]. Composed by the Studie and Trauels of John Weever. London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1631.
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Provenance:
Armorial bookplate of Matthew Wise Esq.
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Size: 193 x 279 mm (approx.)
Condition:
Full brown calf binding with a tooled label in a compartment to the spine between raised bands. Binding rubbed and scuffed. Small tear to the head of the backstrip. Gilt on the tooled label dulled. Shelf and edge wear. Lacking headcap and tailcap. Page edges dulled. Bookplate attached to front pastedown. Ink inscriptions to front and rear blanks. Text block very clean with occasional foxing / marks, and damp staining to the first and last few leaves. Endpapers toned as commensurate with the full leather binding. Holes to the rear blank and pastedown. Uncollated.
