Memoirs of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester 1887 [Hardcover] by earl of Leicester Robert Dudley - 2013

Stipple engraving, from Lodge's Portraits, a little spotting in surround,

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Camden Society. Very Good. 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Perforated library stamp on title page, head of spine broken, ink date on spine, internally about VG. ; Camden Society; Vol. 27; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Publisher's cloth, l, 496p., index. **With the binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds, London. .

Paperback. New.

London: Printed for Woodman and Lyon, in Russell-Street Covent-Garden, and C. Davis in Hatton-Garden, 1727. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. by G. Vertue. Title page printed in red and black. [2], v-xvi, 277 [i.e.289], [79]pp. [Lacking half-title?]. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, uncut. Front and rear pastedowns missing, otherwise a beautiful copy. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. by G. Vertue. Title page printed in red and black. [2], v-xvi, 277 [i.e.289], [79]pp. [Lacking half-title?]. 1 vols. 8vo. ESTCT 76839

[S.l. : s.n.] 1641, 1641. 1st edition in this form. Hardcover. Provenance; bookplate of Kennet of the Dene. Referenced by: Wing L968. Finely bound in near-contemporary full aniline calf. Gilt borders with inner gilt dentelles. Raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled; very impressively finished. Hinges starting. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. First published in 1584, with title: The copie of a letter, vvryten by a master of arte at Cambridge, to his friend in London and was populary known as ""Father Parson's green-coat.""Does not fully correspond with the first issue described in the Grolier club Catalogue of English writers, or with the two issues described in Burgoyne's edition of 1904 (p. xiv-xv). ""Leicester's commonwealth"" was republished in 1641 and was versified as ""Leicester's ghost"" about the same time.Imperfect: contemporary frontispiece portrait of Dudley (not called for?) tipped in. Later manuscript notes on imprint history also… Read More

[8]; [17], [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only editions of two official publications for the government of the Netherlands, represented in the years 1585 to 1587 by the English governor-general of the Dutch United Provinces, Robert Dudley (1533-1588), Earl of Leicester, the Netherland's last foreign head of state before it established true self-rule as a Republic in 1587. The second, with a 15-page list of taxes on hundreds of goods, is especially rare, with only 2 other copies located.Ad 1: A proclamation of 30 April 1586, announcing the introduction of taxes authorized by the Dutch States General to provide funds to equip warships for the protection of the United Provinces, namely to convoy incoming and outgoing merchant ships. Ad 2: An ordinance issued on 1 July 1586, consolidating the various lists of taxes on the import and export of goods, and raising them above their 1581 levels. With a 15-page list of about 430 goods covered, giving the import and export tax for each.With a couple early… Read More