An easy and compendious inrtoduction [sic] for reading all sorts of histories. Contrived, in a more facile way than heretofore hath been published . The sixth edition, corrected and augmented, with an exact continuation of all the popes, emperors, and our kings of England to this present time, with three useful indexes. To which is added a Synopsis of Counsels

Three parts in one, small 4to, pp. [8], 156, [2], 153, 156-157, 156-157, 160-391, 92, 375-381, 381, [32]; 57, [3]; title within ruled border, woodcut ornaments and initals, separately printed title pages for parts two and three of the Introduction, and for Synopsis of Counsels; bound without the half-title in contemporary full calf unadorned calf; joints cracked, but otherwise clean and sound. "Of political history in general, deduced from Nimrod" and "Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families" each have a separate title page dated 1681; pagination and register are continuous. "A synopsis of councels", by John Prideaux, a translation of his "Consiliorum synopsis" (Wing P3421), has separate title page dated 1681; pagination and register are separate. This edition may also have been issued separately (Wing P3437). A summary guidebook, published posthumously, and likely edited by his father, John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, to the ecclesiastical and political history of the ancient world, up to and including the Stuarts and Tudors. There were six editions published from 1648 to 1682. Only the last included the Synopsis of Counsels. Wing P3445.…