Fazello (Tommaso) Rerum Sicularum scriptores ex recentioribus praecipui..., with final blank, paper flaw hole to Nnn4 with loss of a couple of letters, 1579 bound with Tillet (Jean du) Commentatiorum & disquisitionum de rebus Gallicis libri duo..., 1579 and Commines (Philippe de) Tres Gallicarum rerum scriptores nobilissimi, 1578, together 3 works in 1 vol., all with woodcut printer's device to title, the second two also to verso of final leaf (the last laid down but cut away to show device), William Crashaw's copy with his ink inscription "Servire Deo regnare est W.C. 1604" to title, soiled and stained, old calf, rubbed, split to upper joint, Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel
⁂ William Crashaw (1572-1625/6), puritan divine, scholar, and poet, preacher to the Inner Temple, the bulk of whose library was given to his alma mater St.John's College, Cambridge.
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