BACON, Francis, Viscount St. Albans. The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh , London: W. Standsby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, 1622. Small 2°, engraved frontispiece portrait by John Payne engraved title, woodcut head-pieces and initials (clean tears to B1, E3, F 1 - 2, all laminated without loss, occasional light thumb-soiling or spotting), 19th-century calf stamped in blind and gilt (rebacked with old spine relaid, somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : St. George's Chapel, Windsor, arms stamped in blind on covers and bookplate on verso of title; Dr. John Harker, Lancaster, bookplate. FIRST EDITION with "Souldiers" on line 12, page 3. Gibson 116a; STC 1159. With Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1672), and one other historical work. (3)
BACON, Francis, Viscount St. Albans. The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh , London: W. Standsby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, 1622. Small 2°, engraved frontispiece portrait by John Payne engraved title, woodcut head-pieces and initials (clean tears to B1, E3, F 1 - 2, all laminated without loss, occasional light thumb-soiling or spotting), 19th-century calf stamped in blind and gilt (rebacked with old spine relaid, somewhat rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : St. George's Chapel, Windsor, arms stamped in blind on covers and bookplate on verso of title; Dr. John Harker, Lancaster, bookplate. FIRST EDITION with "Souldiers" on line 12, page 3. Gibson 116a; STC 1159. With Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1672), and one other historical work. (3)
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