Beschreibung:

Sandford (Francis). A Genealogical History of the Kings of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, etc., from the Conquest, Anno 1066. to the Year, 1677, 1st edition, Thomas Newcomb, for the author, 1677, title-page in red and black, 5 engraved folding plates, 57 full-page engravings (including 2 lettered A and B, the rest counted in the pagination) and numerous engraved headpieces and vignettes in the text, large floral woodcut initials, a few leaves with a short slit in lower margin (just encroaching on image at p. 281), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, rubbed overall, joints cracked at ends, corners worn, folio (36.2 x 22 cm), together with: Guillim (John), A Display of Heraldry, the Sixth Edition, improv'd with Large Additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwick [and others], 1724, engraved frontsipiece with the royal arms, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut arms in the text, 16 engraved portrait plates (of 17), 43 engraved plates of arms (of 47), frontispiece and the woodcut arms in the first 190 pages hand-coloured at a later date, intermittent minor worming in gutter, browning to a few sections of text, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, rubbed, skilful restoration to boards, folio (38.2 x 23.6 cm), and Rous (John). This rol was laburd & finishd by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, 1st edition, William Pickering [-Henry G. Bohn], 1845-59, lithographic title-page, 33 hand-coloured lithographic plates heightened in silver and gold including frontispiece, top edge gilt, contemporary red quarter sheep, cloth sides, spine sunned and rubbed, 4to (29.9 x 21.9 cm) (Qty: 3) Provenance (Sandford): 'Geo. Raynsford 1680, May 28, e Musaeo Patr. mei[?] ...' (ownership inscription to front pastedown); George Kenyon (1666-1728), of Peel Hall, Lancashire, and influential Lancashire Tory and vice-chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, 1706-15 (engraved bookplate). ESTC R8565 (Sandford) & T140947 (Guillim); Wing S651 (Sandford). The engravings in Sandford's work, which are by Richard Gaywood Francis Barlow and Wenceslaus Hollar depict seals and funerary monuments, and the elaborate headpieces incorporate medallion portraits. 'A handsome, well-printed folio, a great part of which is taken up with the natural children of royal fathers, which may have been elegant flattery of the reigning monarch' (Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677, p. xlvii). ESTC calls for five plates, as here; some commercial records mention an additional, non-folding plate, which may refer to the engraving at page 234, which has no text verso. The third item (Rous) is one of reputedly 100 copies of this attractive edition of the English (Yorkist) version of the Rous Roll, a 15th-century armorial chronicle held at the British Library (Add MS 48976). One other copy seen at auction in the last 50 years.