The reign of King Charles : an history faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into annals.

London : printed by E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, 1655. Folio, nineteenth century calf (scuffed), ruled in blind with gilt corner pieces, gilt lettering to spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, engraved title page, printed title page, pp. [viii], (a few preliminary leaves with a paper strip reinforcing the margins), 266; [4 – contents], the text within ruled borders, a very good copy.

Notably, the printer of this important text was a woman.

‘Ellen Cotes, identified in her imprints as E.C. or E. Cotes, was the widow of Richard Cotes, who had worked in partnership with his brother Thomas until the latter’s death in 1642. In that year, Richard was appointed the official printer to the City of London. Upon his death in 1652, she inherited his business. In a London survey of 1668, she is shown as managing three presses, two apprentices and nine pressmen.’ – A Woman of Great Courage’: Women in the Printing Trades in Early Modern Europe by Sue Luftschein, University of Southern California

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/a-woman-of-great-courage-women-in-the-printing-trades-in-early-modern-europe/ellen-cotes