first edition General title-page in red and black. 4to
1654 · London
by [Halifax, George Saville, Marquis of]
London: for G. Bedel, 1654. First edition. General title-page in red and black. 4to. Contemporary calf; upper cover detached but present, preliminaries browned. First edition. General title-page in red and black. 4to. "Professes to give impartially all the materials of the secret history of the last years of James, and the earliest of Charles, and especially those concerning the actions of Buckingham, the 'Subtleties of Spain,' and the 'Practises of our Home-Roman Catholics, and of some of those who were called Puritans then.' Among the papers of interest new to the public were Bacon's Considerations concerning the Queen's Service in Ireland (undated) and a large number of letters from him and others to Buckingham. The whole is a curious medley of foreign, home, Irish, and even university affairs," (Cambridge History of English Literature, Vol. VII, p. 489). Wing S2110; ESTC R8769. Provenance: Robert S. Pirie (bookplate)
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