Author: Echard, Laurence.
Title: THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Volumes 2-3 [only of 3]. From the Beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First, to the Restoration of King Charles the Second. Containing the Space of above 35 Years;
Description: London printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane, 1718. 1st Ed. 2 volumes. Folio. viii + [ii] + 910pp. + [26]. + [22] + 981pp. + [28]. Rubric title pages within double rule border, engraved frontiss., engraved portrait, engraved pictorial chapter headings, engraved historiated/intitial letters and head and tail pieces. Lacking paper to front pastedown of vol. 1. and with rear blank affixed to rear pastedown also to volume 2., both volume lacking blanks to front, ‘William Chapman’ in pen to head of title page of volume 2., Tho S. Wallis’ in pen to volume 3., light browning, contemporary speckled panelled calf, upper leading corner to vol. 3. with loss, some marking and scratching to boards, waterstain to lower board of volume 2., some loss to gilt lettered spines, joints starting to crack though firm. ¶ Without volume 1 entitled ‘From the first entrance of Julius Cæsar and the Romans, to the end of the reign of King James the first. Containing the Space of 1678 Years.’ Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers,; c: 443; Titlepage in red and black; ESTC T145503 ‘Vol. 1 is a reissue of the 1707 edition with a slip cancelling the author and imprint statement pasted on the titlepage and with a different frontispiece from that in the original issue [not present in our set]. Part of v. 3 printed by William Bowyer, whose records show 1250 ordinary and 50 (or 100) large-paper copies.’ Laurence Echard (bap. 1672, d. 1730), historian. ‘Despite its lack of originality [the above work] attained a seventh edition by 1729. Echard's history of England was the first to be written by a single author. The first volume, from Caesar to James I, was dedicated to the Duke of Ormond, the second and third, reaching 1688, to George I (by which time Ormond had been impeached). The permission for the royal dedication was obtained by William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury, and Joseph Addison, and Echard was rewarded with £300. He finally accomplished what historians had been calling for since the end of the previous century ....’ ODNB.

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