Dugdale, William.
THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND, Or A Historical Account of the Lives and most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility. In the Saxons time, to the Norman Conquest; And from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third’s Reign. Deduced From Publick Records, Antient Historians, and other Authorities.
London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin ..., 1675-1676. 1st Ed. 3 vols. bound in 2. Folio. [xii] + 790pp. + [ii]. + [viii] + 191pp. + [i] + title page [ii] + pp.(195-488). + [iv]. 2 Rubric t.ps., 5 double page pedigrees, dec. initial letters, letterpress plate, letterpress pedigrees. Index to volume one lacking portion along fore-edge barely affecting text, index to volume two lacking sm. portion not affecting text, sm. faint blind stamps to prelims. and some margins, some marginal browning and age toning, title page to vol. 2 with minor marginal blue stain, occasional marginal tears, bookplates removed from pastedown, bound in workmanlike modern institutional leather backed buckram boards, silver lettering and accession no to spines.
¶ Volume I ESTC R16723 ‘Title page in red and black. Includes index. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D2480.’ Volume 2-3 R225614 ‘Title page [to volume 1] in red and black. Text is continuous despite pagination. The baronage of England; ... from the tenth year of King Richard the Second, until this present year 1676. ... Tome the third. has separate dated title page on leaf 2C1r. Errata (leaf b2v) in two settings: 1) composed of 1 paragraph; 2) composed of 2 paragraphs [as in our copy]; 3R2 recto in two settings: 1) column 2, line 1 ends Earl; 2) ends Earl of [as in our copy]. Includes index. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D2480.’ ODNB ‘... After thirty years of accumulating material towards a history of the nobility, Dugdale energetically applied himself to its completion in the later 1660s and the early seventies. Long delayed in the press, the first volume of The Baronage of England eventually appeared in 1676; the second and third were printed together in 1677. It is a history of the aristocracy and its deeds since Saxon times, an immense work of genealogical scholarship derived from sound sources that retains its value to the present day ...’
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