Ancient funerall monuments within the united monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent
Subtitle: with the dissolued monasteries therein contained, their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred.  As also the death and bvriall of certaine of the bloud royall, the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations.  A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie of these His Maiesties dominions ...  Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments, of the foundation and fall of religious houses, of religious orders, of the ecclesiasticall estate of England, and of other occurrences touched vpon by the way, in the whole passage of these intended labours
By: composed by the studie and trauels of John Weever.
Contributors: De La Warr, John West, Earl of, 1693-1766 (bookplate); Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630.; Sotheby, C. W. H. (bookplate); Wright, J. (binder)
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Laurence Sadler ...
Published: 1631
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 871
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments -- Great Britain; Epitaphs -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Ancient funeral monuments; Discourse of funerall monuments
Notes: No more published; the work covers only the dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, London and Norwich.

Numerous errors in paging.

Errata: prelim. p. [17]

Added engraved t.p., signed "T. Cecill sculp."

Gibson, 638.

STC, 25223.

Donation to the Trinity Library Rare Books Collection; D.D.C. Chambers; 1998.

RBSC copy 1: Added engr. t.p. and port. (front.) wanting.  With the armorial bookplate of John, Earl of Delawarr [Franks 31335].

RBSC copy 2: Portrait wanting. With a variant index (p. [2-15] at end).

RBSC copy 3: With the armorial bookplate of C.W.H. Sotheby.

RBSC copy 4: Index (p. [2-15] at end wanting.  Bound by J. Wright (signed with inked pallet).

VUL copy lacks engr. t.p. and port, p. 123-124 and 129-130, and last [12] p.; p. 399-400 and 405-406 duplicated. Leaves inserted after p. 56 and 72

Trinity Library Rare Books copy: engr. port. and index ([12] p. at end) wanting; index substituted by handwritten transcript ; W. Speed Hill Collection copy: index wanting.

W. Speed Hill Collection, Trinity Library.