Purchas, Samuel Purchas his Pilgrimage Or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present ... The Second Edition, much enlarged with Additions through the Whole Worke. London: by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1614. Folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, blind panels to sides, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, loss to foot of spine, joints cracked at head and foot, corners showing, title-page with section excised from head to no loss of text, small interstitial spill-burn, and short closed tear in fore margin extending into text without loss, initial quires [par.]-A damp-stained and with minute worm-track in gutter, closed tear in H4, marginal spill-burn in T2, small hole in T3 costing a few letters, closed marginal tear T6, V2-3 with spill-burn in text, marginal excision to foot of 2V3, index (4H-I) damp-stained, 4I1 r. with old repair affecting text, a few old marks and stains [ESTC 111828; STC 20506; Sabin 66679]

Provenance: 1) Front pastedown and free endpaper annotated with a 17th-century personal library catalogue, headed 'Febery 1696 my ffolio case' and 'Oxtavo case in Febery 1696', entries including '1577 a grate bibell with bras plate', '1681 dokter Crews Rarities of the Royell Society', and similar. 2) Various 18th-century ownership inscriptions including: 'John Tills sent his book 1754'; 'Hannah Wickens her book bought at Felix Smiths sale' (to front free endpaper; similar inscription repeated on title-page); 'This book was printed in the year 1614 / Newton Tills it is my name / And with my pen i write the same'; 'Elizabeth Parker'. 3) Joseph Forrest Fry and Susanna Fry, presented by their daughters to the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, c.1950 (cancelled presentation plate to rear pastedown, Taylor ink-stamps to title-page verso and margin of p. 581, ink-stamped call number to foot of final page). 4) Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplate).