[British Isles] Dugdale, Sir William. Group of 2 Titles

The History of St Paul's Cathedral in London...
London: Printed by George James, for Jonah Bowyer, 1716. The Second Edition corrected and enlarged. Folio. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved plates (including 10 double-page). Full 19th-century calf, stamped in gilt, rebacked, rubbed; toning; browning to text block; some spotting throughout. ESTC T148705

The History of St. Paul's Cathedral was first published during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell to act as an official record of damage done to the structure by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War. The book was completed shortly before the cathedral's destruction during the Great Fire of London in 1666, thus creating an invaluable visual record of its appearance via its included engravings by Wenceslaus Hollar. The present edition of Dugdale's work was edited by Anglican priest Edward Maynard and includes details of the cathedral's reconstruction as overseen by Sir Christopher Wren, who in addition to St. Paul's, oversaw the rebuilding of nearly fifty churches destroyed in the Great Fire. The cathedral was consecrated for use on December 2, 1697, with topping out taking place in 1708, and the final statues added to the roof in the mid-1720s.

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The Antiquities of Warwickshire, Illustrated: From Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes, and Armes
London: Printed by Thomas Warren, 1656. First edition. Folio. Numerous in-text woodcuts; lacking map and with facsimile frontispiece. Full later calf, rubbed; hinges reinforced; title-page trimmed and mounted; page corners at lower right from dedication to pp. 353 severely rubbed away affecting text; minor soiling along upper margin throughout. Provenance: Humphry Sibthorp (1713-1797), English botanist (ownership book-plate). Upcott, pp. 1247-59; Wing D-2479

The Antiquities of Warwickshire contains the first printed image of William Shakespeare's tomb (p. 520), representing only the second printed image of Shakespeare outside of those in the First and Second Folios.