The Epistle of Gildas

Lot 28
07.12.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 28 | The Epistle of Gildas
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GILDAS (516-70?). The Epistle of Gildas, the most Ancient British Author. London: Printed by T.Cotes for William Cook, 1638.

First edition. Gildas, a British monk, is perhaps best-known for his polemic on the history of Britain from the Roman conquest through the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. STC 11895.

12mo (138 x 75mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece (this copy lacking gathering b12 in “To the inhabitants” and leaf f3, the end of the prologue). 18th-century blue morocco gilt with masonic design (lightly rubbed). Sold as a binding, not subject to return. Provenance: James Franck Bright (bookplate).
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