Monasticon Anglicanum or The Cathedrall and Conventuall Churches of England and Wales Orthographically delineated.

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With 98 wonderful B&W plates. First edition oblong folio. Nineteenth-century half-roan, re-backed, title gilt, rubbed, edges red; marbled end papers, title pages soiled, some occasional foxing, some finger-soiling. 8 plates have some old minor repairs on versos (not affecting images). Two engraved title pages by Wenceslaus Hollar P2660ii & P2652ii. 83 (one leaf has two plates on it.) consecutively numbered plates (including both titles) followed by 15 (one signed by King, the rest by Hollar), plates numbered by hand (some with other printed numbers and 12 of which are mounted, and probably supplied from the 1672 ed.) 7 plates are folding. 21 plates by Hollar (some unsigned) P227iii; P962iv; P963iii; P1041iii; P529ii; P975iii; P976iii; P1024Aiii; P1049ii; P1955ii; P1957; P1958ii; P1959ii; P1961-3; P1965; P1967-70 ; and 7 partly by Hollar P993Aii; P11019A; P1055Aii; P1058Aiii; P1087A-Ciii. -King, Daniel, engraver, baker, was apprenticed in 1630 as painter for ten years to Randle Holme the elder. After carrying on business for some years at Chester, he removed to London.. Dugdale told Wood that he was not able to write one word of true English, being 'a most ignorant, silly fellow, and moreover an arrant knave.'.. On visiting Chester in 1660 he was received and entertained by the Stationers' Company of that city. Wood states that he made an unfortunate marriage, and that after his wife had robbed and left him, he died heartbroken near York House, in the Strand, about 1664.- DNB. This is the issue with -sould- in the publisher's imprint. It has the added Hollar title-page but in this issue without a designation of the -Second Part- as described in Pennington p156. The first 83 plates (including titles are numbered successively. This does not match either ESTC r216376 or ESTC r222676 (closer to this entry, however). Of the added plates, which are probably from the 1672 edition of King's Cathedral, 3 are repeats of plates of ecclesiastical costumes already present in their order, #s 54, 56,& 57. The 15 added plates are all by Hollar and include: The scene of Hugh Lupus P529ii; 2 views of Glastonbury P975ii & P976ii; and Hollar's costume plates P1968, P1953, P1965, P1959iii, P1961, P1962, P1958ii, P1969, P1967, P1955A (by King & Hollar),P1970, P1963. -It is difficult, and perhaps profitless, to disentangle the bibliographical history of these King publications..- Pennington. Our copy is interleaved with extensive contemporary manuscript annotations giving histories of the Cathedrals and lists of their bishops. The entries are circa 1700/1 with additions in other hands? to 1748. This is a rare book, especially to find complete, which apparently this is, and with the additional virtue of related contemporary materials and plates. Wing K485a (2 copies only recorded). ESTC r222676. Lowndes 1272. See also: OCLC: 7394047 (citing only Library of Virginia copy) mentioning the Library of Congress copy with 82 numbered plates.