Rerum anglicarum scriptorum Veterum Tom. I. Quorum Ingulfus nunc primum integer, cæteri nunc primum prodeunt

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Folio. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [6], 598, [26] (2 last blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: a⁴(-a1) A-4F⁴, b-g². Contemporary blind-paneled calf. Spines in 6 compartments, red morocco gilt label, repairs on front joint, endcaps, corners. Pastedowns removed. Engraved vignette on title page. Engraved initial. Plate of Sir John Trollope, Bart., MP, and of John Fines. Manuscript note on 1st blank. Mostly in Latin, with some French. The first volume (all issued) of William Fulman’s intended collection of early English chronicles, here presenting five, including that of the forgery ‘Ingulf,’ a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon Abbott Ingulf (d. 1109), first printed in Sir Henry Savile’s Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post Bedam (1596, Richard Crakanthorpe’s copy, Bib# 4102716/Fr# 156 in this collection). The present work was edited under the patronage of Bishop Fell. See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), F2525. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.