THE HISTORIE OF GREAT BRITAIN 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 English Monarchs from Julius Caesar unto the Reign o

SPEED, John
Published by Printed by John Dawson for George Humble in London 1632
SKU: 61363
£850.00
Third Edition, Revised, Enlarged, and Newly Corrected. Folio (approx. 35.5 x 23cm) hardback in modern quarter brown cloth with printed paper title label to spine, and green buckram boards. New endpapers but original free endpapers present. With loose original brown morocco spine title label. [20], 1237pp., [5] Conclusion, [80] Index. With engraved portrait frontispiece of John Speed, dated 1629, pasted in. Illustrated with many wood engravings of coins, coats of arms, crests, genealogical tables, head and tail pieces and initial caps throughout. Pencil signature to early blank and small printed Regal Table pasted to verso of frontispiece. Occasional light foxing, heavier to prelims. Last 2 leaves of Index have had edges reinforced, small hole to last leaf. Small, old worming holes to last 6 leaves. A VERY GOOD COPY.

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