SPEED, JOHN THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAINE UNDER THE CONQUEST...

Hammer

£320

SPEED, JOHN THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAINE UNDER THE CONQUESTS OF YE ROMANS, SAXONS, DANES AND NORMANS
Their Original Manners, Habits, Warres, Coines and Seales, with the Successions, Lines, Acts, and Issues of the English Monarchs, From Iulius Caesar, to our most Soveraigne King James.
Second Edition, 1627, folio, with colophon reading "Imprinted at London by William Hall and Iohn Beale, For John Sudbury and George Humble, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Horse in Popes-head Alley, neere the Royall Exchange.", with engraved architectural title laid onto third free page, this being the Historical Volume, with narrative commencing on page 151 - The Proeme. To the Learned and Lovers of Great Britaines Glory.