STRYPE, John (1643?1737). The history of the life and acts of? Edmund Grindal, the first bishop of London. London: John Hartley, 1710. Large folio (460 x 241 mm). (Sig. A cleaned at margins, some light spotting or browning mostly to preliminary margins, else cine). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title?page printed in red and black. Full contemporary speckled calf, spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, citron morocco lettering?piece gilt in second compartment, gilt lozenge centerpieces framed in various tools in remainder, speckled edges (some splitting along front joint, some chipping at foot). Provenance: Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1680?1711), armorial engraved bookplate. Russell is listed as a subscriber of this work. FIRST EDITION, of possibly the largest paper copy obtainable with unusually wide?margins. A SUBSCRIBER?S COPY. ESTC N8489. From the private library of a distinguished Chicago book collector.