An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories

An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories

Full title: An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime Fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford. The third edition, in which is added a Synopsis of councels by John Prideaux late Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and Bishop of Worcester.

Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?

anno Dom. 1655

[8], 256, [2], 257-351, [35]; [2], 58, [4] p. ; 19 cm, 4to

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 families" each have separate title page dated 1653, with "printed by Leonard Litchfield" in imprint; pagination and register are continuous.
"A synopsis of councels", by John Prideaux, has separate title page dated 1654, with imprint "printed by Leonard Lichfield ... for Thomas Robinson"; pagination and register are separate. This edition may also have been issued separately (Wing P3436A; cf. Madan, III, 2261). It is a translation of "Consiliorum synopsis" (Wing P3421).
Includes indexes.

Book label on verso of flyleaf: Christopher Allyon his book 1659
Shipping manifest moved to item file.

Gift of Daniel Woolf,
Robinson, Thomas, bookseller.
Lichfield, Leonard, printer.

English

Dated 1655 .P9,
English Short Title Catalogue (RLIN), R031925