A clean sound copy of the First Edition Folio xlvii. 788pps 19thc reback retaining original boards. A dictionary of all the authors who flourished in England, Scotland and Ireland before the opening of the 17th century, at which the author laboured for forty years it was eventually completed by David Wilkins and published thirteen years after the author's death.Former catalogue entries to front and rear endpapers " On all questions connected with the early Literature of our nation Tanners "Bibliotheca" notwithstanding its many ommisions,defects and redundancies, is still the highest authority to which the inquirer can refer. As a storehouse of Historical materials it is invaluable" Hardy on British History. Very scarce.