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
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3066573
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 171, [9], 200, 153-375, 384-427, [9], 235, [9], 114, [2], 115-116, [2], 117-238, [8], 172, 22, [22] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms, maps ; fol. Extra-illustrated. Occasional marginal pencil markings. Bookseller's pencil note and price on front free endpaper verso: "Extra Illustrated £4.10-0". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf; blind panelled design with blind stamped centrepiece (rose window design) and blind stamped cornerpieces (crosses); sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; rebacked (spine retained); blind tooled spine; brown spine label, gilt lettered: 'Fuller's Church history'; marbled endpapers; red textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), author