The chronicle of the kings of England
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The chronicle of the kings of England
Other titles: The second book of the chronicle of the kings of England
Classmark: Roth Collection 240-241
Creator(s): Dodsley, Robert (1704-1764)
Additional creator(s): Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of (1694-1773) (Other); Dodsley, Robert (1704-1764) (Other); Beard, James (Former owner); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970) (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for T. Cooper
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1741
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/336641
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010701099705181
Description
First published pseudonymously in 1740.
Attributed to both Robert Dodsley and Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield. Cf. NUC pre-56.
Covers the period 1066 to 1740.
Vol. 2 has half title and title page: The second book of the chronicle of the kings of England : from the reign of Queen Elizabeth unto the present time.
"Books printed for R. Dodsley"--[1] p. at end of v. 2.
Portraits are on 15 engraved plates. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 740-1: excerpt from sale catalogue on front flyleaf, nos. 286, 287 [2 vols] £1.1 and £1.15, and excerpt from Revue des Etudes Juives.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 740-1: contemporary marbled paper over boards, quarter calf, gold tooled.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Roth Collection 740-1. Twentieth-century[?] armorial bookplate on front pastedown: James Beard. Nineteenth-century[?] pentrials and doodle of a sailing boat on verso of the title page of vol 2.
Access and usage
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