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London:: Sam Buckley,, 1713.. First Fleetwood edition. Stated second edition [see description notes].. 8vo.. Recent quarter leather over marbled boards bound as period style, fine. Title page with some minor soiling faint pencil notes at bottom margin and old library stamp on verso. Minor edge wear but overall a very good copy. Scarce book. St. Winifred or St. Gwenfrewy Abbes of Trefynnon and of Gwynthenn (d.600 AD), was honored from early times in Wales as a saint. In 1136 her relics were translated to her shrine at the Benedictine Monastery in Shrewsbury. Two years later her life was written in Latin by Robery, Prior of Shrewsbury (1d.1167). Roberts Life was translated by ÔJFÕ (likely John Falconer) in 1635 and republished in 1712. Bishop William Fleetwood thought the translation so poor that he published this translation the following year hence the statement ÔSecond EditionÕ on the title page. St. Beinos [Beuno] Life and Miracles Translated from the British MS is at end the book p.119 to… Read More

London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, 1713. 128pp. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in nineteenth- century speckled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. Inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP: 'To The Very Rev. Henry Cotton / from his friend / and brother Dean J. T. Letour (?) / July 1839'. Inked inscription of H. Cotton to head of title. The first edition of Anglican clergyman and William Fleetwood's (1656-1723) reworking of The Life and Miracles of St Wenefride, Virgin, Martyr and Abbess, Patroness of Wales (1712), edited by Philip Leigh (1650/51-1717), originally translated by the Jesuit priest John Falconer and printed by the press of the English College at St Omer in 1635. Henry Cotton (1789-1879), Anglo-Irish churchman, ecclesiastical historian, and sometime Dean of Lismore Cathedral. ESTC T28394.. First edition. 8vo.