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LE NEVE, John.

LE NEVE, John.

The Lives and Characters, Deaths, Burials and Epitaphs, Work of Piety, Charity and other Munificent Benefactions of all the Protestant Bishops of the Church of England since the Reformation. As settled by Queen Elizabeth?

LE NEVE'S LIVES OF THE PROTESTANT ARCHBISHOPS
London: printed by W. Bowyer for William and John Innys, 1720.
8vo (9.25" tall). Full straight grain aubergine morocco. Wide gilt raised bands, gilt lettering to panels. Double gilt rule with small corner tools framing boards. Dentelles and all edges gilt. Wide margins and lovely woodcut head- and tail-pieces. A superb copy.
A very handsome Regency binding. Although the title page states Vol. 1, Part 1, no further volumes were in fact published.
£350.00

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