BISHOP BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME (2 Volumes, Complete) Volume I: From the Restoration of King Charles II to the Settlement of King William and Queen Mary at the Revolution: to which is prefix'd A Summary Recapitulation of Affairs in Church and State from King James I to the Restoration in the Year 1660. Volum

BURNET, Bishop Gilbert
Published by Printed for Thomas Ward in the Inner-Temple Lane and Printed for the Editor by Joseph Downing in Bartholomew-Close, and Henry Woodfall in the Strand. in London 1724 and 1734
SKU: 58051
£240.00
FIRST EDITIONS 2 Volumes, Complete. Folio (approx. 35.5 x 22cm) hardbacks in modern half dark brown calf with raised bands, dark red title labels, decorative gilt to spines and brown buckram boards. New endpapers. 836pp. and 765pp. Indexed. Volume II with usual manuscript note by the Editor to verso of title page. Each volume with old engraved armorial bookplate (Randolph Knipe), later engraved bookplate of Frank S. Collins and old Malden Public Library (Salem, Massachusetts) bookplates indicating the two volumes were the gift of Frank S. Collins in 1878 to front pastedown and modern bookplate to ffep. Loose Deaccessioned from Malden Public Library, dated 1986, enclosed. Occasional pencil notes in margins. Occasional light foxing. A VERY GOOD SET.

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