Author: FULLER Thomas
Title: The History of the Holy War. PICKERING AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS
Description: William Pickering,, 1840. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with half-title and title in red and black; original brown ribbed cloth, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, new paper label and laid endpapers to style, a very good, clean copy. CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST MODERN ACCOUNT OF THE CRUSADES IN ENGLISH. Based on the third edition of 1647 and printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press, this is a beautiful edition from Pickering at the height of his powers. Morison: Four Centuries of Fine Printing, 297; NCBEL I, p.2233.

Keywords: history, thomas fuller, holy war, william pickering, charles whittingham, chiswick press, fine printing


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