Author: Clarendon, Edward Earl of.
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, begun in the year 1641. With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by the King's blessed restoration, and return upon the 29th of May, in the Year 1660. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon, Late Lord High Chancellor of England, Privy Counsellor in the Reigns of King Charles the First and the Second. Oxford printed at the Theater, an. Dom. 1704-3-4. 3 vols. Volume 1 Reprint of 1702 Edition, Remaining volumes First Ordinary Edition. Light diminishing browning to gutter hinge of volume 2., contemporary blind ruled and tooled speckled calf boards (except lower board to vol. 3. in plain calf), some soiling and minor loss mainly to corners, rebacked in C20th calf with gilt motifs and original gilt lettered labels. [Together with]. THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON Oxford at the Clarendon printing-house 1759. First Ordinary Edition. Light browning, tape marks to e.ps., contemporary panelled speckled calf, some loss to corners, some surface loss to boards, rebacked with original gilt tooled spine laid down, modern gilt lettered label.
Description: , 4 volumes in total. Folio. Port. frontiss. (offset) after Peter Lely, title page vignettes engraved by M. Burghers, numerous historiated initial letters and head and tail pieces. Lacking half titles, ex-libris John Stewart Sinclair, light age toning, occasional minor marginal loss, marbled e.ps. ¶ Volume 1 ESTC T53940. ‘Line-for-line reprint of 1702 edition. Imprimatur leaf follows tp.’ Volume 2 ESTC N9850 ‘Ordinary paper issue.’ Volume 3 ESTC T147811 ‘With an Index’. Life ESTC No N11213 ‘In two parts, each with separate pagination and register. Each part also has its own half-title; that to the second part reads: 'A continuation of the life of the Earl of Clarendon, ..'. A variant half-title has 'The continuation of the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... [as in our copy]. There are two indices to the two parts at the end of the whole work. Ordinary paper issue.’ Printing and the Mind of Man, 133. ‘The typeface is one of those commissioned by Bishop John Fell when he headed the partnership that rented the right of Oxford University to print during the years 1672-1690. It is the Great Primer roman and italic. The attractive engraved ornaments decorating the text are the work of Michael Burghers, a Dutchman who worked in Oxford and became engraver to the University.’

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