A Manual of British Historians to AD 1600. [MACRAY (William Dunn)].

FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND

A Manual of British Historians to AD 1600. Containing a Chronological Account of the Early Chroniclers and Monkish Writers Their Printed Works and Unpublished.

With a vignette on title and decorated initials to every entry.

8vo. [230 x 148 x 15 mm]. xxiii, [1], 109, [1] pp, plus 18 pp of advertisements. Bound in original Roxburghe style binding, quarter morocco, red paper over boards, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers, top edge partly unopened. Housed in a custom made slipcase.

London: William Pickering, 1845

Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very clean, a very good copy.

Small pencil shelf mark, bookplate of John Porter to the front paste down and John Porter's 'Rescue Collection' label to the front flyleaf, accompanied by the bookplate of Henry Drummond of Albury Park, Surrey. Henry Drummond (1786-1860) was a banker, politician and writer. Albury Park passed into the Percy family through the marriage of Louisa Drummond, daughter of Henry Drummond, to the 6th Duke of Northumberland. A sale of the Duke of Northumberland's library took place on the 3rd of April 1967 via Sotheby's.

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