Annalium Mundi Universalium Origenes Rerum, (& Progressus,) Sacras juxta ac Seculares, ab Orbe Condito tradentium, Tomus Unicus.

Londini: Typis Eliz. Flesher. Prostat apud Ric. Davis, Bibliopolam Oxoniensem, 1677. First Edition . Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pagination: pp. (24), 754, 16; full leather covered boards (scuffed) and re-backed in brown leather with title gilt-stamped in second of six compartments, raised bands, title page has 3" split near inner margin, light soiling, some browning along page edges, rear blank end page has corner piece torn away. There are several indicators of provenance - the title is signed E. M. MacFarlane, there is a bookplate from Saints Peter & Paul College in Oxford ("MacFarlane Bequest"), and there are two blindstamps from the Wigan Free Public Library; Short Title Catalogue R-1680. This work was reprinted in 1686 by another printer. Hugo Robinson died before his religious and secular history of the ancient world was published. Dr. Thomas Pierce (Dean of Salisbury) finished editing the work and brought it to publication. This work is arranged chronologically by Anno Mundi, or year of the world, starting with Adam & Eve (A.M. 1) and ending with Nebuchadnezzar's taking of Jerusalem (c. A.M. 3419). This work was typeset by Elizabeth Flesher, one a small number of women in this trade in the early years of printing. Other well-known women in the early printing industry were Charlotte Guillard, considered the first woman printer of importance and worked up to her death in 1556; Dinah Nuthead, who continued the work of her deceased husband, William Nuthead, in Maryland in 1695; Dona Francisca Flores who introduced printing at Oaxaca, Mexico in 1720; and Maria Magdalena Riedlin of Munich whose known works are dated from 1723 to 1744. Other works by Elizabeth Flesher (by no means a comprehensive list) include Edward Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England (1671), Sir John Fortesque's De Laudibus Legum Angliae (1672), Enchiridion Legum (1673), Christopher St. Germain's Two Dialogues in English, Between a Docteur of Divinity and a Student of the Laws of England (1673).