The Lives of Hale, Bedell and Rochester by Bishop Burnet: with Fell's Life of Dr. Hammond. BURNET'S LIVES IN PERIOD BINDING

J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1830

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Year of publication

1830

Author

Burnet Bishop [Gilbert]

Publishers

J.F. Dove, St. John's Square

Keyword

literature, bishop burnet, gilbert burnet, matthew hale, william bedell, earl of rochester, doves english classics

Languages

English

Description

12mo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved and printed titles, and separate titles to the parts, small neat signature on blank preliminary; attractively bound in dark red full calf, boards with frame border in gilt enclosing double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in blind, back with three flat bands, second compartment with green leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, label chipped (without loss of lettering), joints moderately rubbed, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, clean, crisp copy. The plates are engraved for Dove's 'English Classics'. The frontispiece reproduces Robert Graves' portrait of Matthew Hale; the engraved title, the same artist's portrait of Rochester. RARE. BLPC gives one copy and provisional dating.