CLARK, Samuel - The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History; 'Divided Into Two Parts: The First, Containing the Life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Lives of the Ancient Fathers, School-Men, First-Reformers, and Modern Divines: The Second, Containing the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Soveriegn Princes: Whereunto Are Added the Lives of Inferiour Christians, Who Have Lived in These Latter Centuries: And Lastly, Are Subjoyned the Lives of Many of Those, Who by Their Vertue and Valor Obtained the Sir-Name of Great, Divers of Which, Give Much Light to Sundry Places of Scripture, Especially to the Prophecies Concerning the Four Monarchs: Together with the Lively Effigies of the Most Eminent of Them Cut in Copper. '

London, Tho. Sawbridge & Will. Birch, 1675. 2nd edition. Leather Bound. Pagination of our copy: pp. 27, [5], 504, [4], [8], 116, [4], 104, [4], 298. Pages 123 to 126, and 163 to 168 mis-numbered. This copy lacks the first 24 unpaginated pages containing the title page and introductory remarks. The first numbered leaf (pages 1/2) lacks the top half of the page. The remaining text is complete, except for the last five printed pages of the book. Tall 4to. Engravings and woodcuts: portraits engraved on copper, rubricated first letters, head and tail pieces. A few of the initial portraits have been hand coloured. Some early 'copperplate' handwriting on opposite sides of a few of the portraits. The margins of some portions of the text have been closely trimmed. Our copy has been freshly re-bound in half leather over green cloth, with matching green leather spine label, with new endpapers; now a very handsome presentation of this scarce and important work. This is 'The Second Edition, Corrected and amended'. Ill.: engravings and woodcuts.

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