A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FROM THE TIME OF THE ROMANS GOVERNMENT, UNTO THE RAIGNE OF OUR SOVERAIGNE LORD KING CHARLES. Containing all Passages of State and Church, with All Other Observations Proper for a Chronicle. Faithfully Collected out of Authours Ancient and Moderne; & Digested into a new Method . Whereunto is Added, THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST AND KING CHARLES THE SECOND. In Which are Many Material Affairs of State, Never Before Published; and Likewise the Most Remarkable Occurrences Relating to King Charles the Second’s Most Wonderful Restoration, by the Prudent Conduct of George Late Duke of Albemarle, Captain General of All His Majesties Armies.

Printed for Daniel Frere, and are to be Sold at his Shop, at the - Red Bull in Little Brittaine, 1643

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Año de publicación

1643

Lugar de impresión

London

Autor

Baker

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Printed for Daniel Frere, and are to be Sold at his Shop, at the, Red Bull in Little Brittaine

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ONE OF THE GREAT EARLY WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH

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Sí

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Rare First Edition, First Issue of this important work. With a very elaborate and beautifully engraved title-page by W. Marshall depicting Kings including a Roman, a Saxon, a Dane and a Norman, King Charles, Baker and views of London, York, Lincoln and Verolam, a frontispiece engraving of Charles, Prince of Wales Cor: van Dalen, the preliminary leaves including the Dedication, the Catalogue of Authours, the first page of the Chronicle and the first page of each book, with beautifully engraved head-pieces and 4, 6 or 10 line historiated initials, the books with finely engraved tail-pieces at the end of each. Folio, 13.5" x 9", the binding 14" x 9.5", bound in full contemporary vellum, the spine panel with title in manuscript. [14], 181, [1], 163, 108, 163, [1] pp. complete A handsome and very well preserved copy, the text crisp, clean and unpressed, the binding strong, with minimal wear and normal expected age evidence