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The historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh ... Whereunto is now added a very usefull and necessary table

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Chillington (bookplate) · 1629 · London, Printed by I. H[aviland] and R. Y[oung] and are to be sold by P. Stephens and C. Meredith · 11 pictures

Francis Bacon's history of King Henry VII, printed in London in 1629 by I. Haviland and R. Young for the booksellers P. Stephens and C. Meredith, a English prose history for educated readers. The pictures are repeated woodcut printers' ornaments: a symmetrical strapwork cartouche with scrolls, masks and pendant tassels, and a horizontal frieze of foliage, grotesque figures and animals, useful for designers studying Renaissance decorative borders.

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