Moses Pitt, Oxford 1681. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very pleasing new half calf, marbled sides, raised bands, gilt spine ornaments, label, new e.p. Frontspc, engraved title vignette, dec. initials, hdpcs. Binding as new; text slightly darkened at edges, but clean and crisp. An especially appealing newly bound copy. Dugdale (1605-86), the great chronicler of monastic history, wrote his "Short View" as a bitter attack on the anti-royalist side of the English civil war. The biased perspective of the author is not surprising when one considers that, as a royalist himself, he had his estate sequestered, and he was forced to become a funeral director to earn a living during the Interregnum. The account of the "Troubles" is precise and well-documented in terms of events, even if the author's views on what happened are not objective. (DNB). Inventory # 154633 US $650 Order This Book