THE CHURCH HISTORY OF BRITAIN. from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII.
St Paul's Church Yard, 1656.
4to, various paginations. A very good copy which had been neatly rebound, preserving the leather of the original boards.
10 books on the history of the churches of Britain first published in 1655. This edition of 1656 had added to it The History of the University of Cambridge and The History of Waltham-Abbey in Essex and is notable for its number of excellent character sketches. By enriching his factual accounts with descriptions of psychological oddities and other details of human interest, Fuller widened the scope of English biographical writing.
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