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Shelfmark

Gk.4.07 - Gk.4.09

Author

Title

Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) from the original papers of the Right Honourable Sir Ralph Winwood, Kt. sometime one of the principal secretaries of state. Comprehending likewise the negotiations of Sir Henry Neville, Sir Charles Cornwallis, Sir Dudley Carleton, Sir Thomas Edmondes, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Cottington and others, at the courts of France and Spain, and in Holland, Venice, &c. Wherein the principal transactions of those times are faithfully related, and the policies and intrigues of those courts at large discover'd. The whole digested in an exact series of time. To which are added two tables: one of the letters, the other of the principal matters. In three volumes. By Edmund Sawyer of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq;.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London: : Printed by W.B. for T. Ward, in the Inner-Temple-Lane., 1725..

Physical description

3 v. : port. ; 46 cm. (Fol.)

Note

Volume 1 has an engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Ralph Winwood signed: "Geo. Vertue sculpsit 1723.".

Note

Includes head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials.

Note

Previously listed as ESTC N65464.

Note

Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 650 copies printed on crown, 150 on royal, and 6 on superfine royal -- ESTC.

Note

Signatures: v.1: [pi]² a-b² d-f² g²(-g2) B-6D²; v.2: [pi]² a² b²(-b2) B-6N²; v.3: [pi]² a-b² B-6S².

Note

Pagination: v.1: [26], 461, [11] p., 1 leaf of plates; v.2: [10], 492, [16]; v.3: [12], 507, [21] p.

Citation/references note

ESTC, N65464

Citation/references note

ESTC, T149866

Citation/references note

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1084

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Earl Waldegrave -- probably James, the 2nd Earl -- on front pastedown.

Binding

18th-century speckled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets to form a border with gilt tools at the corners; blind fillets and rolls form two concentric panels, the outer one of which has tools at its outer corners. Spine with seven sewing supports, decorated with gilt fillets, tools and titling ("Winwood state papers "). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.

Copy-specific note

Former ECL shelfmark: Cm.1.12.

Subject

Statesmen Great Britain Correspondence.

Subject

Great Britain Foreign relations Early works to 1800.

Subject

Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Subject

Great Britain History James I, 1603-1625.

Subject

Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714.

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Added entry--place

England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B51335
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