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London: Tho. Sawbridge & Will. Birch, 1675. 2nd edition. Leather Bound. engravings and woodcuts. Pagination of our copy: pp. 27, [5], 504, [4], [8], 116, [4], 104, [4], 298. Pages 123 to 126, and 163 to 168 mis-numbered. This copy lacks the first 24 unpaginated pages containing the title page and introductory remarks. The first numbered leaf (pages 1/2) lacks the top half of the page. The remaining text is complete, except for the last five printed pages of the book. Tall 4to. Engravings and woodcuts: portraits engraved on copper, rubricated first letters, head and tail pieces. A few of the initial portraits have been hand coloured. Some early 'copperplate' handwriting on opposite sides of a few of the portraits. The margins of some portions of the text have been closely trimmed. Our copy has been freshly re-bound in half leather over green cloth, with matching green leather spine label, with new endpapers; now a very handsome presentation of this scarce and important work. This is 'The Second… Read More

London: Printed for W. B. and are to be Sold by Tho. Sawbridge and by William Birch, 1675. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. "The Third Edition, Corrected and somwhat Enlarged." Newly rebound in handsome black half-calf with burgundy gilt title-label and raised bands, over patterned paper boards. New sewn endbands. xxiv,504+4[table],116+4[table],104+4[table],iv+303+1[errata]pp. Numerous pagination errors at the hands of the printers, but text compete and collated. Each section with its own title-page, and portrait frontispiece (of 12 of the "Greats") in final section. Edges toned, showing remnants of earlier speckling; mid-19th-century inscription to flyleaf. Mild toning to first title-page; several short tears to leaves, archivally closed. Woodcut initials throughout; many copperplate portraits. A lovely sound square copy of this third edition..

Printed for Tho. Sawbridge and Will. Birch, London, 1675. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Containing the Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's Time to This Present Age, the Lives of Many Eminent Christians which have lived from the Primitive Times to the Present Age, the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Sovereign Princes and the Lives of Christians of an Inferior Rank. Printed for Sawbridge and Will. Birch in 1675. Bound in full leather with light decoration, banded spine, marbled end-papers. In one volume but with two parts separately paginated. The first part in two sections - Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ followed by The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's time. The second part has a separate title-page for The Lives of Many Eminent Christians Which Have Lived from… Read More