Birch, D.D. . . . The
Second Edition, corrected and inlarged.
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson and
S. Draper [and others],
1753.
8vo. 248 leaves, publisher’s advertisement on the last leaf.
Thomas Birch, 1705-1766, historian and biographer. His life of Archbishop Tillotson, a whig memoir, was first published in 1752.
John Tillotson, 1630-1694, archbishop of Canterbury.
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The history of England. a compilation by Kennet.
3. v.
fol. 1060. A.C.-1702.
viz. Milton.
Daniel.
Anonymus.
Habington.
Moor.
Buck.
L
d. Bacon.
L
d. Herbert of Cherbury.
Hayward.
B
(
~p
) of Hereford.
Cambden.
Wilson.
Anonymus.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 97, Kennet’s Historians of England, to wit, Milton, Daniel, Anonymus, Habington, Moore, Buck,
L. Bacon, L. Herbert of Cherbury, Bp. of Hereford, Cambden, Wilson, Anonymus, 1060 A C-1702, 3v fol.
[KENNETT,
White.]
A Complete History of England: with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens thereof; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the
Death of His late Majesty King William III. Containing a Faithful Relation of all Affairs of State Ecclesiastical and Civil.
The whole illustrated with Large and Useful Notes, taken from divers Manuscripts, and other good Authors: and the Effigies
of the Kings and Queens from the Originals, Engraven by the best Masters. In
Three Volumes, with Alphabetical Indexes to each. Vol. I [-III] . . .
London: Printed for Brab. Aylmer,
Reb. Bonwick,
Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford,
Will. Freeman,
Tim. Goodwin,
Tho. Bennet,
Matth. Wotton,
John Walthoe,
Sam. Manship,
Tho. Newborough,
John Nicholson,
Richard Parker, and
Benj. Tooke,
1706.
DA30 .C73
First Edition. 3 vol. Folio. vol. I, 349 leaves; vol. II, 425 leaves; vol. III, 393 leaves. The title-page of each volume contains
a list of the contents; titles printed in red and black, text in double columns; full-page engraved portraits of the sovereigns
of England by Vanderbanck after E. Lutterell, and other engravers and artists.
Lowndes III, page 124.
Grose 151.
This work is on most of Jefferson’s lists of recommended historical reading.
The first two volumes are a collection of histories by the authors listed by Jefferson above, edited by John Hughes for the booksellers whose names appear in the imprint. The notes in these two volumes signed J.S. are ascribed to Strype. The third volume, by White Kennett, was published anonymously. The long list of subscribers in the first volume contains many well known names including that
of Narcissus Luttrell, the bibliographer, and Michael Johnson, bookseller in Litchfield, the father of Samuel Johnson.
White Kennett, 1660-1728, bishop of Peterborough.
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