The History of the Rebellions in England, Scotland, and Ireland: Wherein, the Most Material Passages, Sieges, Battles, Policies and Stratagems of War, Are Impartially Related on Both Sides: from the Year 1640 to the Beheading of the Duke of Monmouth
Printed for L. Meredith and T. Newborough, 1691. First Edition. Leather Binding. Near Fine. Item #651477
A UNIQUE COPY FROM A MEMBER OF THE MANLEY FAMILY. Three of the leaves (frontis, title, and A4) are a half inch wider than the rest, and are folded over, featuring unique genealogical annotations from two later members of the Manley family. The frontis has been backed, and A4 has a leaf mounted over the lower 3/5ths of the page, all featuring manuscript text, this occuring no later than 1811 and clearly contemporaneous with the binding. This remarkable copy is bound in full brown early 19th or late 18th-century calf (no later than 1811), spine with raised bands and black morocco label, later gilt arms of the Groton school on front cover; edges speckled red (slight wear; text has some browning and minor stains with creases and wear to the three extra-wide leaves; one line underlined on leaf of ads at rear). [16],348,[2] pages of ads at rear. Engraved frontispiece portrait present. PROVENANCE: Title page and 2 leaves feature mid-18th-century annotations on Roger Manley and the generalogy of the Manley family (sometime after 1735); Ownership inscription of recto of frontispiece by Isaac George Manley, dated 1811; Engraved armorial bookplate of Augustus L. Manley (motto 'Manus Haec Inimica Tyrannis'); Bookplate of the Groton School on front endpaper awarding this as the Perry History Prize in 1962.
Price: $1,000.00