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Bede’s history of the church of England. transl d. by Stapleton. small 4 to.
1815 Catalogue, page 27. no. 14, Bede’s history of the church of England, translated by Stapleton, p 4to.
BEDE, The Venerable.
The History of the Chvrch of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman. Translated out of Latin in to English by Thomas Stapleton Student of Diuinite . . . Imprinted at Antwerp by John Laet, 1565.
First Edition of this translation. 4to. 210 leaves, printer’s device on the title-page, woodcut illustrations, arms of Queen Elizabeth.
STC 1778.
Lowndes I, page 144.
Bede, 673-735, English historian and scholar, completed his Historia Ecclesiastica, of which this is a translation, in 731; the first printed edition appeared circa 1473, at Strassburg.
Thomas Stapleton, 1535-1598, English catholic controversialist.
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Burnet’s hist. of the reformation. 3. v. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 27. no. 24, as above, with the reading history.
BURNET, Gilbert.
The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. In Two parts. The First Part. Of the Progress made in it during the Reign of K. Henry the VIII. [The Second Part. Of the Progress made in it till the Settlement of it in the beginning of Q. Elizabeths reign.] The Second Edition, corrected. By Gilbert Burnet, D.D. London: Printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell, 1681, 3. The Third Part. Being Supplement to the Two Volumes formerly publish’d. By the Right-Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. London: Printed for J. Churchill, 1715.
BR375 .B9
Together 3 vol. Folio. First Edition of vol. III. Vol. I, 381 leaves collating in fours; sig. (Aaa) i has the half-title for A Collection of Records and Original Papers . . . with separate pagination; Llll 4 has the half-title for An Appendix concerning some Errors and Falshoods in Sander’s Book . . . with continuous pagination; vol. II, 454 leaves, engraved frontispiece in compartments; sig. Aaa i has the half-title for A Collection of Records . . . and Bbbbb 3 for An Appendix concerning some Errors and Falshoods in Sander’s Book . . . vol. III, 404 leaves; A i with the half-title for A Collection of Records . . . with separate pagination; titles of all volumes in red and black; full page engraved portraits by White after Holbein and by Vertue, those in vol. I missing in this copy; many leaves foxed and stained.
Lowndes I, page 318.
Johnson, Engraved and Etched English Title-pages, page 59, no. 6.
STC B5798,9.
Old calf; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T throughout. These volumes have the signatures of William Cocke in several places and of Arthur Blackamore (crossed out). There are a number of manuscript notes not in Jefferson’s hand. Vol. I has the autograph signature of John Randolph on the title-page.
Gilbert Burnet, 1643-1715, Bishop of Salisbury.
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History of the reformation in Scotland. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 27. no. 25, as above.
[KNOX, John.]
The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland; containing five books: together with some Treatises conducing to the History. Published by
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