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The history of England

In the preface to volume III, Smith explains that poor health and family afflictions forced her to turn over the third and final volume to an unnamed "lady, who, I have no doubt, has proved herself competent to the task." Gina Luria Walker identifies…

The history of Scotland

Index.
List of subscribers: p. [ix]-xiv.
Title page ornament, head- and tail-pieces, initials.
With a list of subscribers and an index. Another impression of the royal paper edition of 1727, with the preliminaries reset; the first word of the…

The History of Appian of Alexandria, in two parts

Title within double-rule border.
Head-piece; initial on leaf A2 recto.
Divisional title on leaf 3A: Appian of Alexandria, his History of the civil wars of Rome. In five books.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ ( -a4)--B-2K⁴ 3A-4L⁴ 4M1 (2K2 verso, first sequence;…

Bishop Burnet's History of his own time

[Edited by his son, Sir Thomas Burnet];
v.1. From the restoration of King Charles II to the settlement of King William and Queen Mary at the revolution. To which is prefixed a summary recapitulation of affairs in church and state from King James I…

The historical library of Diodorus the Sicilian

Made English, by G. Booth.
Numerous errors in paging.
The last ten books have special title page;
The fragments special title-pages (included in paging) dated 1699.
One map wanting?

Life and raigne of K. Henrie the fourth

The first 100 pages are devoted chiefly to the preceding reign of Richard II. Dedication signed: I. Hayvvarde. The imprint is false; printed by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet, 1629?--STC. Running title reads: The life and raigne of K. Henrie the…

Harding's Chronicle

Harding's Chronicle, which is in verse, extends to 1461. "A continuacion of the chronicle of England", a prose compilation by Richard Grafton, extending the history to 1543, has separate divisional title with foliation commencing on 2A1.In this…

The history of the rebellions in England, Scotland, and Ireland

With frontispiece portrait of Charles I on leaf A1v; Title page is A2; A reissue of the edition, with cancel title page, with line 14 of title page ending "1685", and with line 16 of the title page reading "By Sir Roger Manley, Kt."; Marginal notes;…

Thomæ de Elmham Vita & gesta Henrici Quinti, Anglorum Regis

An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed in octavo ...' [1728]--cf. ESTC; Tailpieces, headpieces, initials; Signatures: a-e⁴, f², A-3G⁴, 3H²;
Page 283 incorrectly numbered 183; Title within double line…

Relations and observations, historicall and politick, upon the Parliament, begun Anno Dom. 1640

The dedication is signed "Theoph. Verax", while the prefatory epistle which follows is signed "Theodorus Verax". Actual authorship from Wing.; Probable place of publication from Wing.; Signatures: A-Y⁴ Z² a-b⁴ c².; Includes: "The mystery of the two…

An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England

Anonymous. By John Selden; Editor's dedication signed: Nath. Bacon; With an additional title page (A1r), engraved, "Semper eadem or the uniforme government of England", signed: W.M. sculp:, i.e. William Marshall; Includes index; In this, the true…

The history of Hertfordshire

Map signed: "J. Clark sculp." ; Initials; headpieces, tailpiece.
Printed in double columns; Errata: p. 368; "List of the names of subscribers": pages [7]-[8].