Hayward (Sir John) The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, first edition, engraved title, engraved portrait on verso of a4, woodcut device and decoration on verso of final leaf, leaves L3, M3, N3, and Q4 are cancels printed in slightly smaller type, lacking initial blank leaf, a4 shaved with loss to headline and with marginal repair causing loss of one word of text and just touching portrait to verso, lower margin of a4 and Q4 renewed, some water-staining, later mottled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, [STC 12998], 4to, Printed for John Partridge, 1630.

⁂ The first edition of Sir John Hayward’s posthumous ‘Life and Raigne of King Edward VI,’ the earliest biography of the last Tudor king, reprinted in 1636, and again in White Kennett’s Complete History of England in 1706.