The pastime of people, or the chronicles of divers realms; and most especially of the realm of England / Briefly comp. and imprinted in Cheapside, by John Rastell A. D. 1529. Now first reprinted, and systematically arranged [by T.F. Dibdin]. With facsimile wood-cuts of the portraits of popes, emperors, &c. and the kings of England.

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