EDMONDES | Observations Upon Caesar's Commentaries, [1609]

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

EDMONDES, CLEMENT

Observations upon Cæsars Comentaries. By Clement Edmundes, Remembrancer of the cittie of London. [Mathew Lownes, 1609]

folio, dedicated to Henry Prince of Wales, 12 engraved plates (10 double-page), woodcut portrait of Caesar, engraved title-page, woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces, contemporary calf elaborately gilt with Henry Prince of Wales coat of arms in centre on a semé of small squirrells stamped on upper and lower board, rebacked retaining original spine, lacking ties, Y4 with paste down sheet censoring text block, some browning to margins, rubbed and scuffed

The first edition was published in 1600 and dedicated to Sir Francis Vere. The present 1604 edition was dedicated to Prince Henry, and included comments on the battle of Nieuwpoort and referred to the sieges of Ostend (1601–4) and Grave, in Brabant (1602).

LITERATURE:

ESTC S121472

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hamilton (1721-1794), 7th Earl of Haddington, engraved armorial bookplate; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington

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