from the Norman conquest in the year 1066 to the conclusion of 1734.
collected from the most approved historians, English and foreign, authentick records and manuscripts, scarce tracts, original journals, etc. with many facts and observations never before made publick
by Thomas Lediard
London, printed for John Wilcox and Olive Payne, 1735.
folio [36x22cm]. 2 volumes in 1. ppxxvii, xii 394, 395-933 + advert page for Wilcox & Payne. engraved frontispiece.
full 18th-century speckled calf, lightly pitted. skilfully rebacked, though not recently, with matching spine and replacement end-papers. wear to corners and slight splitting to joints at foot of spine.
very good clean and crisp condition internally. title-page close cropped to the head with partial loss of the word 'THE'.
light vertical crease to title-page and frontispiece.
although issued in two volumes, it is more common to find the work bound into one volume, as in this example. The title-page to the second volume is not bound in
