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Forrest, William & Macray, Rev. W. D. edited by.. The History Of Grisild The Second: A Narrative, In Verse, Of The Divorce Of Queen Katherine Of Arragon. Written By William Forrest, Sometime Chaplain To Queen Mary 1., And Now Edited, For The First Time, From The Author's Ms. In The Bodleian Library, By The Rev. W. D. Macray, M. A., F.S.A. First Edition 1875.. Whittingham And Wilkins. The Chiswick Press For The Roxburghe Club., London., 1875.

Price: US$552.57 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition thus, 1875. The Roxburghe Club. Top edges gilt. Page edges uncut. Some very light foxing throughout and to uncut page edges. Endpapers age toned and lightly foxed. Publishers half brown leather and red paper covered boards. Corners rubbed and slightly frayed. Spine is lightly rubbed and with a small area rubbed. Generally a very good solid copy. Scarce. 196 p.

Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom

[ Rpxburghe Club ]. Forrest, William.. The History of Grisild the Second: A Narrative in Verse of the Divorce of Queen Katharine of Arragon.Now edited, for the first time, from the authorÕs MS. in the Bodleian Library, by the Rev. W.D. Macray. London: Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press, 1875., 1875.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: Large quarto. xxviii, 199 pp. Title-page in red and black, wood-engraved headbands, tail-pieces and initial letters. Quarter brown leather over red paper boards, gilt, flat spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Binding extremities and edges of boards lightly worn. Still, a very good copy. First edition. Printed from the 1558 manuscript, previously unpublished. Presented to the Club by John Benjamin, Baron Heath, FRS,noted consular-diplomat, banker, and director of the Bank of England. Roxburghe Publication No. 101.

Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.