(Charles I)

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

An Exact Collection of All Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Petitions, Messages, Answers, and Other Remarkable Passages betweene the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, and His High Court of Parliament Beginning at His Majesties Return from Scotland,Being in December 1641, and Continued untill March the 21, 1643. London: Printed for Edward Husbands, T. Warren, R. Best, 1643
paper, ink, leather

4to (7 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.; 187 x 133 mm). Engraved frontispiece, B2r with row of fleur-de-lys ornaments, caption title on D3v in upper and lower case letters; repairs to lower outer corners of about 40 leaves occasionally touching text or catchwords, holes in lower right margins of H1–2 and 3P1–3 with substantial text loss, Y4 torn at bottom costing text in last line, quires 2X–2Z and 6B browned, long tear through 2Z2. Contemporary calf, edges stained red; rebacked.

Provenance

Frederick Elwin Watson (bookplate on front pastedown) — Northage John de Ville Mather (bookplate on front free endpaper)

Literature

Wing E1533; ESTC R2795

Catalogue Note

A reissue of the edition dated 1642, with the date modified to 1643.