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CAVE, WILLIAM. Apostolici; or, The History of the Lives, Acts, Death, and Martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded
CAVE, WILLIAM. Apostolici; or, The History of the Lives, Acts, Death, and Martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the Apostles. As also the Most Eminent of the Primitive Fathers for the First Three Hundred Years. [36], xxxii, 335 pages, including engraved additional title and 23 large text portraits by Michael Burghers. Folio, 360x228 mm, contemporary red morocco by the Samuel Mearne bindery, spine in 7 compartments, lettered in one with gilt cipher of King Charles II in the rest, front joint worn; L1 browned, scattered minor foxing. London: A. C. for Richard Chiswel, 1677
- Notes: first edition. Wing C1590. wide-margined copy, printed on thick paper. "There are five different versions of these [royal cipher tools] in various sizes, but they all appear to have been used exclusively by Mearne. He appears to have carried out all the binding for the royal library during Charles II's reign"--Nixon, English Restoration Bookbinding, pages 12-13. Provenance: St. James's Library; Henrietta Cavendish Holles, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, inscription dated 1731 and bookplate; Sir William Bolland, Baron of the Exchequer, bookplate dated 1834; Henry Cunliffe, bookplate; J. R. Abbey, initialled inventory number dated 1952 and bookplate (sale, 19 June 1967, lot 1748).
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