Grafton, Richard

folio (271 x 183mm.), title within engraved border (McKerrow & Ferguson 131) with eleven portraits of Biblical and British monarchs (including Queen Elizabeth, William the Conqueror, and Henry VIII; earlier state of the title omitting the names), second part with separate title page within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 110), separate pagination for second part, woodcut initials and illustrations (some by Virgil Solis), black letter, a few near contemporary signatures or scribblings, late nineteenth-century straight grained brown morocco, gilt edges, new maroon endpapers, title leaf and possibly some of the other preliminary leaves apparently supplied from another copy or copies, borders of title slightly shaved at upper and lower edges, [Pi]A2 cut down and inlaid, [Pi]A6 cut down and mounted, A1 extended, occasional staining (particularly towards end), a few repaired tears at margins, some headlines slightly shaved, ²D1 slightly short (? possibly supplied), 3H4 possibly supplied, four leaves from the table at the end torn and repaired, colophon leaf at the end extended, no final blank at the end (c6 cancelled as called for by ESTC)

Thomas Bateman (1821-1861) of Middleton by Youlgreave, Derbyshire, armorial bookplate, sale, Sotheby's, 25 May 1893, lot 881, £3-3s, William Ridler; pencil price on flyleaf, £5-10-0

"Despite his wishes Bateman's very large and important antiquarian and archaeological collections were dispersed within a generation. Sheffield Museum eventually purchased archaeological material on loan there from 1876; other artefacts were auctioned by Sotheby's in 1893, and the remainder is said to have been sold in 1895 after the death of his son and heir, Thomas William Bateman" (ODNB).

STC 12147; H.C. Levis, Notes on the Early British Engraved Royal Portraits, 1917, p.29; Luborsky & Ingram, Early English Illustrated Books 1536-1603, 12147

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