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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Oxford: ... (Total: 3 )
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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1702-04.3 volumes, folio. Engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume; half-titles present in Vols. I and II. 19th-century half brown morocco and marbled boards, spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments with five raised bands, by Zaehnsdorf (according to pencil note).
FIRST EDITION. Clarendon began his work in April, 1641, and finished it during the period of his exile (1667-74). It is considered to be the "most valuable of all the contemporary accounts of the civil wars" (DNB). "One of the handsomest books hitherto produced in England" (Barker, The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Printing, 28).
Condition: Some wear to joints with some chipping; light wear to extremities (color retouched in a few places); boards rubbed. Lacking half-title in Vol. III; tear in lower margin of p. 383 in Vol. I; Vol. II with some light dampstaining to the lower corners of several pages; Vol. III with short tear to lower margin of pp. 333 and 563, respectively; occasional spotting or marginal toning, but overall a crisp wide-margined copy.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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