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.

[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.