The history of England, as well ecclesiastical as civil.. By Mr. De Rapin Thoyras. Vol. II. In Two Parts. Part I. Contains the Reigns of Ethelred II, Sweyn, Edmund Ironside, Canute the Great, Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, Edward the Confessor, Harold II. With the State of the Church from 979, to 1066. And a Dissertation on the Government, Laws, Customs, Manners, Religion and Language of the Anglo-Saxons. Part II. Contains the Reigns of William the Conqueror, William Rufus, Henry I. and Stephen; with the State of the Church from 1066 to 1154. Done into English from the French, with large and useful notes mark’d with an *, by N. Tindal, A. M. Vicar of the Great Waltham in Essex. Illustrated with the Heads of the Kings, &c. Curiously Engrav’d on Copper-Plates.
Paul Rapin de Thoyras (1661-1725)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3220319
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2 ([8], 452, [12] p.), plates : ports., map ; 8vo. Imperfect: wanting all before sig. B, including titlepage. With two plates not bound in. Provenance: "W.P.B." gold-stamped on upper board. Remnant of library label on upper pastedown. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf sewn onto five raised bands, double gold fillet on boards; red spine label.
Makers and roles
Paul Rapin de Thoyras (1661-1725) Nicolas Tindal (1687?-1774)