The church-history of Britain; : from the birth of Jesus Christ, until the year M. DC. XLVIII. / Endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3066571
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 171, [1]; [8], 200, (153)-(199), [1], 201-377, [1], 371-375, 384-427, [1]; [8], 235, [9], 114, [2], p. 115, p. 115, [2], 117-238, [1]; [8], 172, 22, [20] p., [5] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., coats of arms, maps ; fol. Contains two copies of Index sigs. 2[par]2-3. Ink splodges on pp. 271-4; old cup/glass stain on book 8, p. 17-18; fourth count (Book 11), p. 157 has seventeenth-century manuscript marginal note. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) under blank leaf which has been pasted down over it: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century reverse calf over boards on six raised cords (rebacked); single gilt fillet and red spine label on new spine; blind double fillet and spine edge roll on covers; remains of single gilt fillet on board edges; remains of red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), author