Burnet, Gilbert & Burnet, Thomas (editor)

BISHOP BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME, from the Restoration of King Charles to the reign of Queen Anne, to which is added The Life of the Author by the editor

      printed for Thomas Ward, Inner-Temple Lane (1st volume) & Downing & Woodfall (2nd volume), 1724 & 1734. Two volume set, folios, contemporary leather boards, tooled blind with later calf spines carefully laid. Corners skilfully repaired, but wear to volume I where bottom compartment of the spine is missing. Raised bands, each with gilt rule to top and bottom. Part of label on volume I torn away. Page edges speckled, Upper joint of volume I weak but holding. Signature of John Cooke to title page of volume I, internally both volumes very good. (Volume II was published ten years after the first). The verso of the title in the second volume contains the printed copy mss promise of the Editor to deposit the original in a library of note. This is often mistaken for a genuine handwritten mss. The work contains xvi (subscribers list) & 836pp & xxii (subscribers list) & 765pp