MAGNIFICENT LARGE PAPER COPY, BOUND BY BEDFORD
SANDFORD, Francis; STEBBING, Samuel.
A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066. to the Year 1707. In Seven Parts or Books. Containing A Discourse of their several Lives, Marriages, and Issues; with the Times of their Births, Deaths, Places of Burial, and Monumental Inscriptions. Also, Their Effigies, Seals, Tombs, Cenotaphs, Devises, Arms, Quarterings, Crests, and Supporters; All Curiously Engraven in Copper-Plates. First Publish'd to the Beginning of King Charles the Second's Reign, by Francis Sanford, Esq; Lancaster Herald of Arms: And Continued to this Time, with many New Sculptures, Additions, and Annotations; As likewise the Descents of divers Illustrious Families, now Flourishing, Maternally Descended from the Said Monarchs, or from Collateral Branches of the Royal Blood of England; By Samuel Stebbing, Esq; Somerset Herald.
London, M. Jenour for John Nicholson and Robert Knaplock, 1707.
Large folio (17-7/8 x 11-3/4 in.), pp. xi + 878 + xxvii. Bound in full crimson morocco by Francis Bedford (his stamp lower front dentelle), gilt titles and elaborate decoration to spine, gilt decorative rules and panels to covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 69 full-page engravings, 5 engraved folding plates, and numerous other text illustrations, some nearly full-page. Slight wear to spine joints, few negligible stains to covers, dampstain on blank verso of errata leaf, otherwise fine, a beautiful copy with crisp and clean paper, the plates sparkling.
The second, much enlarged and wholly preferred edition of this work, originally sponsored by Charles II, by the noted English genealogist, Francis Sandford, revised and supplemented onward from 1677 to 1707 by Samuel Stebbing. The engravings are principally by Hollar and Gaywood. A stunning example, superbly bound by Bedford, of the large paper issue of only 25 copies.
Provenance: Baron Crewe (his armorial bookplate on first marble pastedown).
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Price: $8,750
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SANDFORD, Francis; STEBBING, Samuel.
A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England, and Monarchs of Great Britain, &c. From the Conquest, Anno 1066. to the Year 1707. In Seven Parts or Books. Containing A Discourse of their several Lives, Marriages, and Issues; with the Times of their Births, Deaths, Places of Burial, and Monumental Inscriptions. Also, Their Effigies, Seals, Tombs, Cenotaphs, Devises, Arms, Quarterings, Crests, and Supporters; All Curiously Engraven in Copper-Plates. First Publish'd to the Beginning of King Charles the Second's Reign, by Francis Sanford, Esq; Lancaster Herald of Arms: And Continued to this Time, with many New Sculptures, Additions, and Annotations; As likewise the Descents of divers Illustrious Families, now Flourishing, Maternally Descended from the Said Monarchs, or from Collateral Branches of the Royal Blood of England; By Samuel Stebbing, Esq; Somerset Herald.
London, M. Jenour for John Nicholson and Robert Knaplock, 1707.
Large folio (17-7/8 x 11-3/4 in.), pp. xi + 878 + xxvii. Bound in full crimson morocco by Francis Bedford (his stamp lower front dentelle), gilt titles and elaborate decoration to spine, gilt decorative rules and panels to covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 69 full-page engravings, 5 engraved folding plates, and numerous other text illustrations, some nearly full-page. Slight wear to spine joints, few negligible stains to covers, dampstain on blank verso of errata leaf, otherwise fine, a beautiful copy with crisp and clean paper, the plates sparkling.
The second, much enlarged and wholly preferred edition of this work, originally sponsored by Charles II, by the noted English genealogist, Francis Sandford, revised and supplemented onward from 1677 to 1707 by Samuel Stebbing. The engravings are principally by Hollar and Gaywood. A stunning example, superbly bound by Bedford, of the large paper issue of only 25 copies.
Provenance: Baron Crewe (his armorial bookplate on first marble pastedown).
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Price: $8,750
Inquiries: mail@mobysnewt.com
