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Heroologia anglica : hoc est clarissimorvm et doctissimorvm aliqvot anglorvm qvi florvervnt ab anno cristi MD. vsq[ue] ad presentem annvm MDCXX : viuae effigies vitae et elogia duobus tomis authore H.H. anglo brittano.

General note: Engraved title page, includes view of London across London Bridge towards the city UK-SuSCL. Contains 60 engraved portrait plates of prominent English statesmen, noblemen, church leaders, scholars, explorers, etc. from the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth I UK-SuSCL With 4 leaves of post-prefatory pages and contents list of portraits supplied in photocopy UK-SuSCL Ownership and custodial history: Bookplates of John Wentworth of North Elms, West Riding of Yorkshire, baronet, and Trevor- Roper, Chiefswood, Melrose; purchased John Lawson 2004 UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Contemporary full leather, spine and corners of boards gilt decorated UK-SuSCL