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The history extends to 1641 only.
Plate has engraved title page. on recto and blank verso.
Signatures: A-2M?.

"Lectori" signed: Roger Twysden.
Title words "Simeon ... Londoniensis" are gathered by a right brace;
title words "Johannes ... Leicestrensis" are gathered by a left brace. Signatures: ¹A? a-f? g1 A? B-5B? 5C-5F? 5G² ²A-²2C? ²2D? ²2E-²2M? ²2N?.…

In this edition, the title contains the words "James" and "access" and the imprint contains "door".
In another ed. published the same year, these read as "Iames" "accesse" and "dore."
Signatures: A? B-T? V-X? Y-2O? 2P² 2Q?. Leaves in gathering X…

Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 750 copies printed.
Price one shilling on title page.
The ornaments are those used by William Bowyer.

Title of v. 2 varies slightly. Frontispiece represents armorial bearings of the archbishopric of Canterbury. Title in red and black. Title vignettes (printer's device). Dedicatory epistle signed: Hen. Wharton. Contents: pars. 1. De archiepiscopis &…

With an introductory discourse touching the ancient state of that kingdom, and new and exact map of the same, by Richard Cox. Frontispiece of vol. 1 duplicated in vol. 2. Title of v. 2 (in red and black): Hibernia anglicana: or, The second part of…

Edited and published after the death of Mathias Prideaux by John Prideaux, his father.
A reissue of the 1654 edition (Wing P3441; Madan, II, 2260).
"Of political history in generall" and "Of the history of successions in states, countries, or…

Numerous errors in paging.
Signatures: [pi]2 (-pi1) B-N12.
K2 is misprinted I2; L3 is misprinted R3.
Place of publication conjectured by cataloguer.
Also published under title: Behemoth.

Richard Burton is a pseudonym employed by Nathaniel Crouch.
In two parts. Part 2 has separate dated title page and begins new pagination on 2A2r.

Two title pages, first with vignette, second with title: Chronicon Saxonicum, seu Annales rerum in Anglia praecipue gestarum ...
"Imprimatur Jonath. Edwards, Vice-Can. Oxon., Aug. 15, 1692." -- verso of first t.p.
"Regulæ ad investigandas nominum…

A translation of: Discours sur l'histoire universelle,
Running title reads: A discourse concerning universal history.

Frontispiece portrait (plate) of the author signed: R. Gaywood fecit, "Illustrated with their effigies in copper plates",
Pages 338, 432 incorrectly numbered 323, 342, respectively,
Title and imprint within double line border,
"A cypresse…

Sir R.C. = Sir Robert Cotton,
Originally published in 1627 as: A short view of the long life and raigne of King Henry the Third

Dedicatory epistle and preface signed: Edward Ayscu, Signatures: A-Z? Aa-Bb? Cc?;
leaf A8 is blank,
Woodcut device on title page, with a map of the British Isles surrounded by a serpent
A bird stands on the serpent's head, beneath a banner which…