Author: Anonymous
Title: Memoirs of the Antiquities of Great-Brittain, Relating to the Reformation, &C
Description: London, H. Tracy, 1723 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated account of the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries. The very scarce first edition of this work.A fascinating anonymously authored discussion of British history, with a particular focus on the Reformation and dissolution of the monasteries. Including discussion of Wolsey, Cromwell, and an account of the 'church-plate, money and jewels, images &c. deliver'd to K. Henry, taken from the Bodleian library&apos.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four further plates. Collated, complete.Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.ESTC T78048With the armorial bookplate of Joseph Gillow of Preston to the front free endpaper, and with extensive former owner's inscriptions to the front pastedown, and recto and verso of the front free endpaper.A very scarce work. Rebacked, retaining the original calf boards. Retaining the original endpapers. Externally, excellent. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Front free endpaper, front blank, and frontispiece detached and loosely inserted. Extensive former owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with light handling marks throughout. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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