JESSOPP, AUGUSTUS One Generation of a Norfolk House a Contribution to Elizabethan History , London: Miller & Leavins, 1878.

First Edition. Very Good. 8vo One Generation of a Norfolk House "began as a biography of Henry Walpole of Houghton, the Jesuit Father who was executed at York in 1595 . It expanded into something of a history of the Jesuit Mission to England" (EDP 1964) Decorated cloth covers with bevelled edges, TEG, book plates of Philip Hamond on pastedown, two engraved plates, title page in red and black letter press, two double page pedigrees. 293pp inc index. This is the large paper edition of which only 160 copies were printed. Edges worn, binding a little shaken. (Book ref. 27353)  £65.00

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