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 Author: Dugdale, William, (1605-1686); Wenceslaus Hollar, (1607-1677), artist; Sir Charles Wolseley; John Avery, F.C.A., former owners Title: The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : From Its Foundation. Extracted out of Original Charters, Records, Leiger-Books, and Other Manuscripts. Beautified with Sundry Prospects of the Old Fabrick, Which Was Destroyed by the Fire of That City, 1666. As Also with the Figures of the Tombs and Monuments Therein, Which Were All Defac'd in the Late Rebellion. Whereunto Is Added, a Continuation Thereof, Setting Forth What Was Done in the Structure of the New Church, to the Year 1685. Likewise, an Historical Account of the Northern Cathedrals, and Chief Collegiate Churches in the Province of York. By Sir William Dugdale Knt. Garter Principal King at Arms. The Second Edition Corrected and Enlarged in the Author's Own Hand. To Which Is Prefixed, His Life, Written by Himself. Original Printing
Description: London: Printed by George James, for Jonah Bowyer, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street, London, MDCCXVI. [1716]; Published by Edward Maynar, D.D. Folio. 28 x 43.5cm.; 17 3/8 x 11 1/2 in.. Contemporary roan with aging. [. [6], xxviii, 210, 75, [1], 88, [20] pages, [12] plates (11 folded) ..Bound with A View of the Monuments..With Their Epitaphs Exactly Imitated.. (1714), Appendix in Historiam Ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Pauli.. (1715), and A Brief Historical Account of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, and Carlisle.. (1715). Full leather, spine with raised bands, gilt, and gilt-titled red morocco label, all edges red speckled. Large folio; With engraved portrait frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar, list of subscribers, errata, printed marginalia, decorated initials and woodcut ornaments, indices, and final page advertising books printed for Bowyer; (41) total engravings throughout, including many double-page.. Condition report: Boards scuffed, with edgewear including significantly rubbed corners, cracking at joints with more severe cracking at front joint, leather chips to lower board; spine with crack, loss of bands, and small leather losses mostly at head and tail; bookplates on front paste-down, both paste-downs with slight separation from boards, first free endpaper attached to paste-down, second free endpaper partially detached and with small losses, writing on title page, hinge cracking; some pages toned, with scattered light foxing and areas of grime, occasional closed tear; (2) leaves (To the Reader and The Life of Sir William Dugdale) with large corner damp stain (and on different paper), small repairs at inner margin of frontispiece recto, Areae Ecclesiae Cathedralis double-page plate with tears and repaired by being pasted to verso and recto of two blank leaves; pages generally extremely clean and crisp; a good to very good oversize volume with fascinating and detailed illustrations... Conforms with the Getty's copy: "A view of the monuments", (p. [59]-210) has separate title page with imprint date 1714; "Appendix in Historiam Ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Pauli", (p. [1]-75) has separate title page with imprint date 1715; "A brief historical account of the cathedrals of York, Durham and Carlisle", (p. 1-88) has separate title page and an imprint date of 1715. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dugdale by Wenceslaus Hollar; other illustrations by Hollar or John Harris. Pagination error: p. 164 misnumbered p. 194; p. [51]-[52] duplicated in pagination; p. 117-118 omitted in pagination. Includes index.. References: ESTC T148705.; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 3817602: Prefixed by list of subscribers, errata and binding directions. Includes: "A view of the monuments .. with their epitaphs .. London, 1714": pages [59]-135; "Appendix in Historiam ecclesiĉ cathedralis S. Pauli .. Londini, 1715": 75 p.; "A brief historical account of the cathedrals of York, Durham, and Carlisle .. By Sir William Dugdale .. London, 1715": 88 p. (erroneously considered as Dugdale's work by the editor, cf. DNB, by Sir T. Herbert and others. Each with a separate titlepage, and pagination, but signatures continuous.. List of books printed for Bowyer on final page.. Illustrations: frontispiece portrait of Dugdale, views and architectural details of St. Paul's Cathedral. .
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Price: US$ 3250.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books - Book number: 51-6020
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