An easy and compendious inrtoduction [sic] for reading all sorts of histories.

Folger bibliographic ID: 150748
ESTC number: R29253
Wing number: P3445
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 194965

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Edited and published after Mathias Prideaux's death by John Prideaux, his father Vertical half-title reads "Prideaux Introduction to history.". The words "Introduction to history" are bracketed together Pagination is irregular. I.e., the first two of the three pages following first p. 156 are unnumbered; the third page is numbered 153. The page following p. 391 is numbered 92. The [4] pages preceding the [36]-page unnumbered section are numbered 37, 180, 381, and 182 "Of political history in general" and "Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families" each have 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) Signatures: pi⁴ A-T⁴ t² U-3C⁴, ²3A-3E⁴, ²A-G⁴ ²H² Includes indexes

Extended title: An easy and compendious inrtoduction [sic] for reading all sorts of histories. : Contrived in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published; out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux, Mr. of Arts, and sometime Fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford. 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 councels, by John Prideaux, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and Bishop of Worcester
Alternate titles: Of the history of successions, in states, countries, or families, Synopsis of councels, Easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories, Of political history in general, Prideaux Introduction to history

World history Church history Councils and synods Great Britain

author: Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?
associated with: Prideaux, John, 1578-1650