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William Dillingham, Cambridge, 1657. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition 1657. Half-title with verse verso, 4 double-page maps, 3 double-page plates, lacking portrait of Horace Vere before title-page, the two other portraits laid-in loose from another copy, 19th. Century blind-stamped calf, rubbed at extremities, armorial bookplate of The Earl of Ilchester to front paste-down. Other than the portraits, an exceptionally bright and clean copy.[Cockle 166; Wing V240], folio, Cambridge, John Field, 1657.

Cambridge, published by William Dillingham, D.D., printed by John Field, 1657.. FIRST EDITION 1657, slim 4to, approximately 275 x 180 mm, 11 x 7 inches, 2 engraved plates before title page with portraits of Francis Vere and his brother Horace, a further portrait of Sir John Ogle at page 106, 1 folding plate of Vere's funeral monument, 6 folding maps and battle plans, text within ruled border, pages: half-title with poem on verso, [12], 1-209, plus 3 (addendum, last page blank), bound in full leather (sheep) rebacked and original spine laid down, gilt lettered title to spine, blind and gilt decoration to spine and covers, decorated inner dentelles, (turn ins), all edges gilt and finely gauffered, endpapers replaced when book rebacked, small engraved library shelf ticket on first pastedown. Spine slightly rubbed, pale stain to outer margins of a few pages at the beginning and last 3 pages, not near text, occasional pale age-browning and occasional small brown spot, small hole to outer margin of A3… Read More