The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, the First Bishop of London and the Second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
London: John Hartley, 1710. First Edition. Leatherbound. 4to. Pp. xviii, 314, 108, [5]. Frontis. engraved portrait. Title page in red and black. Appendix. Full speckled Cambridge-style calf with tooled decorations, gilt tooled returns, morocco lettering piece between six raised bands on the spine, edges sprinkled. Rubbed edges and corners, joints cracked, wear to spine and cover, head edges lightly soiled, endpapers toned and foxed, moderate foxing throughout. London bookseller tag on front pastedown. Very Good-. Item #11266
A supporter of Calvinist Puritanism, Grindal was among the Marian exiles and returned to rise in the church upon the accession of Elizabeth I. John Strype (1643 – 1737) was a London clergyman, historian and biographer.
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