Description:
Campion, Edmund, Saint (1540-1581) Two Histories of Ireland. The One Written by Edmund Campion, the other by Meredith Hanmer, Dr. of Divinity. Dublin: Printed by the Society of Stationers, 1633. First edition, small folio, title page printed within woodcut compartment, ESTC records a variant that includes another history of Ireland by Sir Edmund Spenser bound after Hanmer's work with the pagination: [8], 127, [9] p.; this copy does not contain that part, and was likely issued this way; bound in contemporary speckled boards, rebacked, 11 x 7 1/4 in.
Edmund Campion was the first Jesuit priest to be executed in England under the Statutes of the Elizabethan Act of Supremacy in 1581.
[para]6, A-L6, M4; Aa-Ss6, Tt4 (Tt4 blank likely integral).
http://estc.bl.uk/S118078
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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