A Complete History of England: From the First Entrance of the Romans Under the Conduct of Julius Ceasar, unto the End of the Reign of King Henry III

Robert Brady

London : T. Newcomb for S. Lowndes, 1685

[A Stuart interpretation of English History] Folio.  Contemporary boards, rebacked on later spine.  Red and gold leather spine label.   Important note: Lacks page 419. 6 preliminary leaves, lxviii, [8], 675, 254, [67] pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of James II.  Title page printed in red and black.  Clean, unmarked pages. "A catalogue of authors used in this history": [8] p. following p. lxviii.  Wing, B4186.   Robert Brady (1627-1700) was a Stuart loyalist and early English historian.  "He was a principal agent in bringing English historical method out of its medieval and into its modern period."  Pocock, J. (1951). IV. Robert Brady, 1627–1700. A Cambridge Historian of the Restoration. Cambridge Historical Journal, 10(2), 186-204.  Brady notably argued against traditional English rights and for royal absolutism.