Quarto. [24], 356pp, [34]. Title in red and black. Recent half-calf, light brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine, all edges red. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Dampstained throughout, tear to text of leaf Nn4, without loss of sense. Recent bookplate of the King Edward VI School, Southampton to FEP, nineteenth century inked inscription to title recording the donation of the book to the school by 'Revdi Thomae Lawes'.

The Southampton Grammar School copy of the biography of John II Comnenus, Emperor of the East, by Byzantine historian Joannes Kinnamos, or John Cinnamus (c.1143 -c.1185).; edited for its editio princeps by Dutch scholar Cornelius Tollius (c.1628-1654), professor of history, geography and politics at the University of Harderwijk.