Search Results: impartial history of the rebellion and by hooper jacob

London, Printed and sold by all the Book sellers, 1738. Hardcover. Good. 4to. 628 p. plates, port. 31 cm. Rebound in modern red buckram. Good binding and cover. Minimal shelfwear. Missing title page and last two pages. Clean, unmarked pages with minimal toning. Some pages have tape. Please feel free to view our photographs.

Cambridge: R. Walker, and T. James, 1745. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A scarce work discussing the English Civil War of the seventeenth century, written here in great detail by Jacob Hooper. A scarce work.This is the edition with Volume I ending on page 716.ESTC citation number T154531.Undated, dated from ESTC.Signature Y4 is not a cancel in this copy.In a signed binding by Temple Bindery. Rebound in a quarter calf binding with cloth to the boards, rebound with new endpapers.Incomplete in one volume, being Volume I of a total of II volumes.An extensive history on the English Civil War in the seventeenth century, up until the restoration of Charles II to the throne.The English Civil War was a bloody period in British history, with the Parliamentarians and Royalists fighting each other.Written by Jacob Hooper. This is his only known work. Rebound in a quarter calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned with the odd spot and… Read More

Cambridge: R. Walker & T. James, 1745. Two Volumes, first thus. This is the two volume re-issue of this work by Walker, in 1745. It was longer than the earlier edition (extending to 1234 pages rather than 1109), but it was not issued with the engravings. This copy conforms to ESTC T154531 with pages up to Y4 the same as the earlier issue, those after differing. In this copy, Y4 is not a cancel. Half contemporary leather bindings, with marbled boards (now significantly faded) gilt volume number but no titles to each spine. Leather is a little cracked, but binding is holding well. Vol. 1 has a modern cutting with a portrait of Cromwell pasted to the inside front board. Title page is a little darkened. Rest of the work is in good clean condition, with a few pages a little dirty. To volume II, the rear paste down is covered in pencil page references. The last text page has a repaired tear, with a corner of loss (not affecting text.). (viii) 1-716, 721-1234. pp. 110 by 170mm (4¼ by 6¾ inches).

London: Printed, and Sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1738. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. 304, 205-212, 313-628 (text continuous despite pagination) + frontispiece and 26 plates. Contemporary mottled calf, boards bordered with a gilt roll. Some scattered toning and spotting, one gathering browned. Sometime rebacked in paler speckled calf, red morocco label, new endpapers, boards pitted from mottling, scratched and worn. Hooper’s lavish history of the English civil war was reissued in two smaller-format volumes in 1745, but without the impressive plates that adorn this edition. ESTC T73385.