Sir William Dugdale. THE HISTORY OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN LONDON, FROM ITS FOUNDATION... London: printed by George James, for Jonah Bowyer, 1716. Second ed. corrected and enlarged. Bound with A View of the Monuments...With Their Epitaphs Exactly Imitated... (1714), Appendix in Historiam Ecclesiae Cathedralis S. Pauli... (1715), and A Brief Historical Account of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, and Carlisle... (1715). Full leather, spine with raised bands, gilt, and gilt-titled red morocco label, all edges red speckled. Large folio; [6], xxviii, 52, 51-210; 75, [1]; 88, [20]pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar, list of subscribers, errata, printed marginalia, decorated initials and woodcut ornaments, indices, and final page advertising books printed for Bowyer; (41) total engravings throughout, including many double-page. ESTC T148705.

17 3/8 x 11 1/2 in.

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Boards scuffed, with edgewear including significantly rubbed corners, cracking at joints with more severe cracking at front joint, leather chips to lower board; spine with crack, loss of bands, and small leather losses mostly at head and tail; bookplates on front paste-down, both paste-downs with slight separation from boards, first free endpaper attached to paste-down, second free endpaper partially detached and with small losses, writing on title page, hinge cracking; some pages toned, with scattered light foxing and areas of grime, occasional closed tear; (2) leaves (To the Reader and The Life of Sir William Dugdale) with large corner damp stain (and on different paper), small repairs at inner margin of frontispiece recto, Areae Ecclesiae Cathedralis double-page plate with tears and repaired by being pasted to verso and recto of two blank leaves; pages generally extremely clean and crisp; a good to very good oversize volume with fascinating and detailed illustrations.