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Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh.
London: Printed for W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes & William Barret, 1622.
First edition (one of two variants with the same publication year, in this copy page 3 line 12 has "Souldiers"; some of the errata have been corrected, others have not), engraving frontispiece portrait of the subject of the work by John Payne bound opposite the title, which is printed within an elaborate woodcut printer's border (McKerrow & Ferguson 224), bound in contemporary English calf, ruled blind, rebacked, with title, author, and dated tooled in gilt on spine, without the initial blank, 11 1/2 x 7 in.
STC 1159 [may include sheets from 1160]; ESTC S1406; Gibson 116a; Pforzheimer 32 [describing the variant].
