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Includes: "Memoir of Mr. John Vicars, the authour of this booke": initial [6] pages.
A reprint of the original edition of 1647.

List of authorities: volume 1, pages vii-xi.

"Printed by C. Adlard Bartholomew Close."
Advertisements on the pastedowns, numbered i - v
Paper label on front cover.

Faded purple blind patterned cloth binding.

Spine title: Willard's universal history.
Copyright 1835 by F.J. Huntington.

Includes bibliographical references (preface).

Date of publication from preface: 1825.
36 plates listed on the description table; two plates printed on each leaf.

Translated from the Latin of Titus Livius by John Bellenden, Archdean of Moray, and Canon of Ross.

Running title: History of the ancient Israelites.
Another issues (Shaw 28518) has 304 p., with a subscribers' list not included here.
Dennis Heartt printed at Philadelphia.
Error in paging: p. 125 misnumbered 225.
Engraved frontispiece portrait…

Signatures: A8 B-Y12 Z6 2A4.

Colophon: London: printed by Nichols, Son, & Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, for the author, and sold by Law and Whitaker, Ave-Maria-Lane 1815.

To which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs, and mayors, of the city of London. From the year 1189, to 1558, inclusive. "Reprinted by Sir Henry Ellis." Dict. nat. biog.