WARD, JOHN. The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College; to which is prefixed, The Life of the Founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. 5 engraved plates, including 2 folding views (with slight separation at folds, the second with minor cellotape repair on verso). [4], xxiv, 338; [2], 156 pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip; scattered foxing, small piece missing from blank outer margin of frontispiece, small repair in blank upper margin of B1. Bookplates of Lord Nathan of Churt and Eric Sexton. London: John Moore for the Author, W. Innys, et al., 1740