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[ROWLANDS or VERSTEGAN, RICHARD.] A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In antiquities. Concerning the most noble, and renowmed English nation. 11 engraved illustrations, including full-page depiction of the author's coat of arms. [24], 338, [13] pages. Small 4to, old sheep, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents browned, title lightly soiled. Antwerp: Robert Bruney for John Norton and John Bill in London, 1605
first edition, "a seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship" (ODNB). Pages 85-86 contain the first account in English of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hameln. STC 21361.
