[BUTLER, Alban.] The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: Compiled from Original Monuments, and other Authentick Records. London: [N.p.:] 1756-1759. 4 vols. in 6, first edition, 8vo (198 x 122mm.) 6 title-pages, 1 engraved plate of Roman torture devices. (Repair verso title-page of volume 1, tear to X1 of same volume, occasional ink annotation, browning and occasional spotting.) Early 19th century calf, two green morocco lettering pieces to spines (some loss to lower cover of volume 4, paper labels to base of spines). Note: scarce in the first edition. It was printed with no stated author or publisher. Provenance: English College, Lisbon (bookplates to front pastedowns and ink inscribed to four title-pages). - And a further nine volumes (including a first edition of Charles Dickens' 'Our Mutual Friend', 1865, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, and a book of engraved sheet music, mostly published by Clementi, with eleven longer pieces including work by Hadyn, Cramer and Dussek, with approximately twenty-four further songs and glees, [circa 1800], 4to) (15).