CHALLONER, RICHARD. Britannia Sancta; or, The Lives of the most Celebrated British, English, Scottish, and Irish Saints . . . From the Earliest Times of Chistianity, down to the Change of Religion in the Sixteenth Century. [10], 388; [2], 335 pages, with table of saints to second volume bound at end of preliminaries in the first. 2 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf; blank outer margin of A2 restored in first volume, repaired wormhole in upper inner corner of several leaves, last leaf in second volume trimmed in blank lower margin and mounted. 19th-century armorial bookplate of James Whatman (a descendant of the papermaker). first edition. London: Thomas Meighan, 1745