Herbert (Edward, Lord of Cherbury), The Life and Raigne (sic...

Estimate

£150 - £250

Herbert (Edward, Lord of Cherbury), The Life and Raigne (sic) of King Henry the Eighth, first edition, London: Printed by E.G for Thomas Whitaker, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Kings Arms in Pauls Church-yard, 1649, cut-out engraved portrait from frontispiece and later tipped-on a new leaf, black-ruled red and black title-page, black-ruled contents, decorative woodcut headers, foliate initials and tail-pieces, pp collating: A⁵, B-R⁴, S-X⁶, Y⁸, Z¹⁰, 2A-N⁴, 2O-Y⁶, 2Z⁴, 3A-Z⁴, 4A-C⁴, 4D⁵, 20th c quarter tan morocco, preserving fragments of contemporary speckled calf and 18th c marbled boards and gilt-lettered red morocco piece, contemporary red-speckled edges, reinforced recto and verso pastedown gutters, folio (28 x 19.5cm), [Wing H1504], Fiddes (Richard, DD), The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, first edition, London: Printed for John Barber, 1724, black-ruled title-page with woodcut vignette, 7 full-page plates as called for, of which the portrait frontispiece engraved by George Vertue is repaired, and extra-illustrated? with a folding prospect of Christ Church, Oxon, engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, now repaired, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, reinforced recto and verso pastedown gutters, refreshed endpapers, folio (35.5 x 24cm), [&] Hall (Edward), Henry VIII, copy no. 99/500, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, sunned spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, 4to, (4) 

Provenance: 1st: 1) [...] Ex dono Geo: Mason, partial 17th c ownership inscription on title-page. 2) R.H. Shuttleworth, late 18th c ownership inscription on later 'frontis' leaf, presumably the commissioner of the initial repair/rebind. 2nd: Reverend Wolley Jolland (1745-1831), the 'Lincolnshire Hermit' and Vicar of Louth (1780-1831); his ink manuscript ownership inscription to title, above another later and indistinct.