Book Details
BIONDI (Sir Giovanni Francesco). An History of the Civill Warres of England, Betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke... Written in Italian in three Volumes, by Sir Francis Biondo... Englished by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Mounmouth. [Bound with:] The Second Part of the History of the Civill Warres of England Between the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke,1641
London: T. H. and I. D. for John Benson; Richard Whitaker, First English edition, 2 parts in one, folio (290 x 190 mm), 2 vols., in one, [26], 162, 175, [5], 40, [8], 41-156, 153-236pp, additional engraved title to first volume, by Renold Elstracke, woodcut decorative initials and head-pieces, separate printed title page to part two, engraved title soiled, repair to blank margin and slight fraying to margins, a couple of small worm pin holes throughout, slightly larger worm track to final 20 leaves, light water-staining to upper portion of leaves towards the end of part one, penultimate leaf to part two creased with closed tear repair, terminal leaf with loss to upper and lower corners effecting several lines of text, repaired with archival paper, nineteenth-century half reversed calf, marbled boards. Wing, B2936.
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