Description

Printed at the Theatre, Oxford, 1704. Complete in three folio volumes, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt bands and green title labels. Each volume includes an engraved frontispiece.

A handsome early eighteenth-century edition of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon’s celebrated account of the English Civil War and Restoration.

Condition report

Uniformly bound in full calf. All bindings remain firm and attractive, showing expected surface wear and rubbing to the boards. Volume I: Light chipping to the spine, pencil notation to the front free endpaper, ex-libris plate to the pastedown. The text is clean and tightly bound. Pages 555–557 have been neatly supplied in modern facsimile to complete the text (see images). Volume II: Cracking to the spine leather at head and tail, both lower corners of the boards crushed. Some scratching and light wear. Foxing and mild staining to the fly-title and title page, otherwise clean throughout. Volume III: Light edge wear and a small chip to the top of the spine. Clean pages with faint tanning. Binding tight and secure. Overall, a complete and presentable set with strong bindings and clean interiors. Minor flaws consistent with age.