[MORDAUNT, Henry, Earl of Peterborough and the Reverend RANS (compilers)]. Succinct Genealogies of the noble and ancient houses of Alno... Broc... Howard... Effingham [and others] by Robert Halstead, London, 1685, engraved title vignette, genealogical plates and illustrations (title and some other leaves with neatly repaired tears, a section of the title possibly supplied in skilful facsimile, some spotting), 19th-century red morocco gilt, covers panelled and tooled in restoration style with tulips, drawer-handle tools etc., spine in 7 compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with appropriate overall decoration composed from various small-tools, g.e., by Clarke & Bedford (uniformly faded, extremities rubbed) [Wing P1693]

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[MORDAUNT, Henry, Earl of Peterborough and the Reverend RANS (compilers)]. Succinct Genealogies of the noble and ancient houses of Alno... Broc... Howard... Effingham [and others] by Robert Halstead, London, 1685, engraved title vignette, genealogical plates and illustrations (title and some other leaves with neatly repaired tears, a section of the title possibly supplied in skilful facsimile, some spotting), 19th-century red morocco gilt, covers panelled and tooled in restoration style with tulips, drawer-handle tools etc., spine in 7 compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with appropriate overall decoration composed from various small-tools, g.e., by Clarke & Bedford (uniformly faded, extremities rubbed) [Wing P1693]

Provenance: Charles Longuet Higgins of Turvey Abbey (bookplate dated 1874); Earls of Gosford (leather booklabel). ["It is said no more than twenty-five copies were ever printed": Moule Bibliotheca Heraldica 328].