[Rarebooks] fa: FASTI ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE - ENGLAND & WALES - Folio/Cambridge Binding 1716

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John Le Neve: Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ: or, An Essay towards Deducing a Regular Succession of all the Principal Dignitaries in Each Cathedral, Collegiate Church or Chapel (now in being) in those Parts of Great Britain called England and Wales, from the first erection thereof, to this present year 1715. Containing the names, dates of consecration, admission, preferment, removal and death of the archbishops, bishops, deans, præcentors, treasurers, chancellors, and archdeacons, in their several stations and degrees. To which is added, the succession of the prebendaries in each prebendal stall (of most of those erected at the reformation, and) continued down to this time. The whole extracted from the several registers of the respective cathedral or collegiate churches or foundations, as also from other authentick records and valuable collections never before publish'd. [London:] In the Savoy, printed  by J. Nutt: and sold by Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard; Charles King, at the Judge's Head in Westminster-Hall; and Edward Nutt, at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleet-Street, MDCCXVI [1716].

First edition. Folio (34.5 cm) in early/period Cambridge-style paneled calf, spine with gilt-lettered spine label and gilt-tooled Welsh dragon's head; xii, 535, [5] pp. ESTC T111946. Binding with bumping to the corners, cracking to the ends of the joints but with both boards secure; light toning and spotting to the contents, occasional ink annotations in an early hand and with a leaf of ms. notes loosely laid in, some creasing to the last few leaves, rear (blank) endpaper detached but present, otherwise quite clean and sound, securely bound. Front paste-down with an early owner's signature and the later armorial bookplate (engraved by Harry Soane) of Charles Arthyr Wynne Finch [of Voelas, Wales].