Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Catalogue of Books in English History and Literature From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century This is a reprint of the 1666 edition, which had not the series of illustrations to the Life. The volume is particularly well printed for this period, undoubtedly one of the dullest in the history of English typography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.