London : Printed by Tho. Brudenell 1647. Binding: Bound in full calf, boards with a double blind rule border, spine in five compartments with raised bands, red morocco gilt label in second compartment. Three books in one. 832 pages + 12 pp "A Catalogue of Most Astrological Authors Now Extant, where Printed, and in what Yeer" + 8 pp "An Alphabetical Table, Shewing the Contents of the Principall Matters in Every Page of this Book". Books 1 & 2, 1647, Corrected & Amended. Book 3. 1658. Text generally quite clean; binding very handsome. 5 1/2 inch wide by 8 inch tall. 860.00 g More details & Images on request. The second edition corrected and amended, printed by John Macock, London, 1659. From the fine patina, this may be the original vellum over boards. Black and red leather spine lettering pieces, with pattern of blind stamped decoration . a very attractive 350 year old binding. Woodcut frontis portrait of Lilly, old ink names, some rubbed out, and small, unobtrusive rubber stamped library marks. Index plus astrological tables and diagrams. Printed on light weight handmade paper that shows faint tanning and occasional spotting throughout. Tho. Brudenell for John Partridge and Humph. Blunden in Blackfriers at the Gate going into Carter-lane and in Cornhil, London, 1647. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (xxiv) + 832 + (xxiipp. 'Catalogue of Astrological Authors .' Contents & Erratta . ) Collates A4; (a) - (c) 4; D - PPPPP3 (no PPPPP4 - as issued). Nineteenth century (?) half-leather binding, black spine and corners, over marbled paper boards. Gilt titling and decorations to the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Lilly and numerous woodcut diagrams, charts etc. in text. The book itself is without doubt the most significant work of the foremost 17th century English astrologer, the Leicestershire-born William Lilly (1602 - 1681), who famously predicted the Great Fire of London in 1666. "Christian Astrology," is renowned as the most definitive work on horary astrology ever written in English.
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