DUGDALE (WILLIAM) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, title printed in red and black, 14 engraved plates (11 double-page, one folding), 30 engraved illustrations after Wenceslaus Hollar and others (all but one full-page), contemporary calf, joints neatly repaired (starting) [ESTC R16413; Pforzheimer 341], folio (340 x 220mm.), Thomas Warren, 1658 Unusually clean and crisp copy of Dugdale's History of St. Pauls, which "With the destruction of the cathedral in the great fire of 1666... became the lasting memorial of old St Paul's" (ODNB). The first edition "is particularly cherished because it contains the finest impressions of Hollar's plates and is the only edition to contain them all" (Pforzheimer).