1820 · London
by Russell, John, Lord
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1820. 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xix, [1], 275, [1]; iv, 282; engraved portrait frontispiece, folding facsimile plate; original blue paper-covered boards and brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spine; light rubbing to labels and edges, corners a little bumped, light foxing, mostly to first and last gatherings of each volume, hinges starting, else very good. As noted in the Britannica: "William Russell, Lord Russell (1639-1683) was an English Whig politician executed for allegedly plotting to murder King Charles II and his Roman Catholic brother (truncated)