Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

4to. 7.75 x 10.75 inches. xii + 75 pp. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper, which has some edge wear and chips. Extremities a little worn, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated b portrait frontispiece and by 34 pages of black and white plates. Well illustrated biography of Henry Aldrich (1648-1710), Dean of Christ Church College. He was an architect, collector of early music and an author of books on logic, architecture, etc. He may have written the long preface and dedications of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion (see chapter viii).