Binding.- Anglo-Saxon.- Verstegan (Richard) A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed English nation, first edition, title in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved plate of arms and illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, plate of arms trimmed to border, laid down and positioned as frontispiece, title trimmed and laid down, [dagger]2 repaired at outer margin, final f. trimmed and laid down, trimmed at head, affecting head-lines, some staining, inner gilt dentelles, attractive early 18th century black or dark blue morocco, richly gilt, covers with wide two-part floral and foliage borders within an outer border of twin filets, spine in six compartments, 4 of which decorated with a saltire pattern incorporating acorn and seed-head tools, the remaining compartments with red morocco labels, 1 lower corner worn, rubbed, g.e., [STC 21361], small 4to (binding 175 x 133mm.), Antwerp, Robert Bruney, 1605. sold as a binding and not subject to return.

⁂ 'A seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship' (ODNB), which contains the earliest printing in English (pp.85-87) of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.