Bede, Saint, the Venerable. Historiæ ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum libri V., first edition, second issue (with A1 cancelled and replaced with three leaves bearing half-title, cancel title, and leaf beginning 'Deo tri-uni', and with 3T3 cancelled and replaced with separate dated title page 'Chronologia Anglo-Saxonica elegans et perantiqua'), parallel Anglo-Saxon and Latin text, half-title, title in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, errata ff. 4F2 and ²2G4, lacking engraved map, some spotting, lightly browned, attractive 19th century red crushed morocco, richly gilt, spine in compartments and with black and brown morocco labels, rubbed (especially joints) and marked, g.e., [Wing B1662], folio, Cambridge, Roger Daniel, 1644.
⁂ A presentation copy in 1662 from Edward Rainbow (1608-1684, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University) to Sir Wadham Wyndham (1609-1668, Justice of the King's Bench 1660-1668, who sat on the Fire Court during the trials of property restitution after the Great Fire).
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