The history of imbanking and drayning of divers fenns and marshes : both in forein parts, and in this kingdom; and of the improvements thereby. Extracted from records, manuscripts, and other authentick testimonies, by William Dugdale Esquire, Norroy King of Arms.

London : Printed by Alice Warren, in the year of our Lord, MDCLXII. [1662]

[8], 424, [6], 7, [1] p., [11] folded leaves of plates : maps ; (fol.)

Title page in red and black.

"A note of the contents of the surrounded grounds" (caption title) begins new register; pagination begins on leaf A2r with caption title "Anno XIII Caroli II. Regis, ... An act for confirmation of certain decrees of sewers".

Signatures: A-3H⁴ 3I² (A3 signed A2; 3I2 [blank?] lacking).

Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE blg pag.: [8], 424, [2] p. ; 11 plates (maps), all folded ; DFo copy ends with Index leaf (3I1), thus without the second register & pagination ; cf. 246 notes and 500 note - and verify sigs. from another copy, if this one is judged incomplete. N.B.: m'film erroneously reduplicates various leaves at end.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), D2481
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R975

Great Britain -- England -- London.

D2481 (folio)

128027. Imperfect: lacking all leaves after 3I1 (?). Bound in blind-tooled calf over thick wooden boards, rebacked, with gauffered edges. Provenance: bookseller's label of B. Diver and Son, Cambridge