A SURVEY OF ENGLANDS CHAMPIONS BY JOSIAH RICRAFT 1647 [FACSIMILE EDITION 1818]

A SURVEY OF ENGLANDS CHAMPIONS BY JOSIAH RICRAFT 1647 [FACSIMILE EDITION 1818]

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[RICRAFT, Josiah]. A Survey of England's Champions and Truths Faithfull Patriots or a Chronological Recitement of the Principall Proceedings of the Most Worthy Commanders of the Prosperous Armies Raised for the Preservation of Religion, the Kings Majesties Person. Published by Printed By R. Austin, London, 1647 [i.e. 1818].

First facsimile edition [circa 1818]. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (260 x 155 x 22 mm.). Pp. [10], 174, [22 leaves of plates]. English text. Bound in quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, rough cut page edges. Two title-pages: The first title is a facsimile edition originally published in 1647, with the additional title page of "The Civill Warres of England" (1649); the same work reprinted with a new title and falsely ascribed to John Leycester (Wing 1428). Engraved frontispiece bound in a the end along with 21 engraved portrait plates. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers clean with very light shelf wear to extremities. Collated compete - the contents are a little toned in places. Without previous ownership markings.

Notes: A rare nineteenth century facsimile edition of the pamphleteer Josiah Ricraft's 1694 study on England's noted military men. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and twenty-one portraits of eminent noblemen who fought for England. This work contains short biographies of the likes of: the Earl of Calender, Edward Earle of Manchester, Edward Massey, Sir William Waller and Sir Thomas Fairfax. A scarce work in any edition, and this 19th century facsimile has been very smartly bound in a quarter calf binding, with paper covered boards.