Burnet, Gilbert.

The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. The First Part, of the Progress made in it during the Reign of K. Henry the VIII. [Followed by: “A Collection of Records and Original Papers; With other Instruments Referred to in the Former History”]. [With seven fantastic full-page portraits after Holbein of Henry VII, Anne Boleyn, Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Cranmer, Catherine of Aragon, Thomas Wolsey and an allegorical frontispiece].

Original First Edition. London, Richard Chiswell, 1679. Folio. Dedication leaf, Engraved frontispiece, two-coloured titlepage, (14), 377 pages with the full-page portraits interleaved and including Addenda and “A Table [Index] of the Contents of the History”] / Bound with: “A Collection of Records and Original Papers” which has its own pagination at the end of the Volume: 368 pages plus 4 unnumbered pages of “A Table [Index] of the Records and Papers….”] with Errata and “An Advertisement”. Hardcover / Original full leather. Endpapers detached from pastedowns. Armorial bookplate of Richard Meade of Ballymartle, to pastedown. The portraits clean and beautifully saturated. The engraved frontispiece with some creasing and fraying only. Clean tear on page 235. On page 313 a manuscript annotation writes “Eliza Meade”.

Includes the following full page portraits and illustrations:
1. Engraved frontispiece / 2. Portrait of Henry VIII (after Hans Holbein) / 3. Portrait of Catherine of Aragon (after Hans Holbein) / 4. Portrait of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey / 5. Portrait of Thomas Cranmer, Leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury (after Hans Holbein) / 6. Portrait of Anne Boleyn / 7. Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (after Hans Holbein) / 8. Portrait of Sir Thomas More (after Holbein) /

• Keywords: Cromwell · Meade Family History & Genealogy · Meade Library Ballymartle · Richard Meade Library (Ballymartle)
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 110133AB

EUR 1.280,--