ENGLAND & WALES PARLIAMENT – Ordinance by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the preservation and keeping together for publique use, such books, evidences, records, and writings subsequently sequestered or taken by distress or otherwise... London: for Edward Husbands, 1643.

First edition of this argument toward a national library and archive. From the collection of diamond merchant and bibliophile Albert Ehrman, who assembled the Broxbourne. Wing E1780.

Quarto. (Some staining and a little fraying at margins, final leaf with repaired tear across text and two words in facsimile, page numbers just shaved.) Modern quarter morocco. Provenance: shelfmark to title page – Albert Ehrman, 1890-1969 (bookplate to pastedown).

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