BEDA (672/3-735). Ecclesiasticae historia gentis Anglorum. Antwerp: Gravius, 1550.
4° (281 x 179 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf. (The last leaf used as paste down, some browning and light dampstaining to inner margin heavier at end.) Contemporary blind paneled calf, spine in five compartments tooled gilt in 18th-century design, gilt-lettered in second (light chipping and wear to spine and edges). Provenance: O.A. Taylor (owner’s name on front free endpaper); R. Taylor (owners name on front paste down).
Later edition of a foundation text of English history. Beda is the only valid source for the life and writings of Caedmon (fl.670), one of the earliest English poets, whose only authentic fragment is preserved in the Historia ecclesiastica. Adams B-452.
BEDA (672/3-735). Ecclesiasticae historia gentis Anglorum. Antwerp: Gravius, 1550.
4° (281 x 179 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title and last leaf. (The last leaf used as paste down, some browning and light dampstaining to inner margin heavier at end.) Contemporary blind paneled calf, spine in five compartments tooled gilt in 18th-century design, gilt-lettered in second (light chipping and wear to spine and edges). Provenance: O.A. Taylor (owner’s name on front free endpaper); R. Taylor (owners name on front paste down).
Later edition of a foundation text of English history. Beda is the only valid source for the life and writings of Caedmon (fl.670), one of the earliest English poets, whose only authentic fragment is preserved in the Historia ecclesiastica. Adams B-452.
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