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TAYLOR (John) A Memorial of all the English Monarchs, being in number 150 from Brute to King James, in Heroyicall Verse. London 1622, small 8vo, title within border of fourteen woodcut head portraits, woodcut additional portraits throughout; all rather age stained, spotted and worn, leaf B1 with repaired corner with loss of text, final leaf strengthened at head with slight loss, some cropping to headlines, corners rounded off, lacks frontispiece (?) and final blank, otherwise with 76pp. (of 80; collates without loss of other text leaves), worn calf, rebacked.Rare. This copy apparently bought in 1944 from Deighton Bell, Cambridge, according to a note.

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