Lot 84
Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat Ambassador, first edition, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1655.
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat Ambassador, first edition, engraved frontispiece, printed title in red and black, L2 with small hole slightly affecting text on verso, Bbb2-3 foxed, slight marginal worming towards end, modern calf, [Wing D1453], folio, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1655.
⁂ Important work documenting the proposed marriage of Elizabeth I. Digges, poet, diplomat and large share-holder in the East India Company, had died in 1639. This work was published from copies of the correspondence of Elizabeth with Leicester, Burghley, Walsingham and Sir Thomas Smith, which had been found amongst Digges' papers.
Description
Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat Ambassador, first edition, engraved frontispiece, printed title in red and black, L2 with small hole slightly affecting text on verso, Bbb2-3 foxed, slight marginal worming towards end, modern calf, [Wing D1453], folio, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1655.
⁂ Important work documenting the proposed marriage of Elizabeth I. Digges, poet, diplomat and large share-holder in the East India Company, had died in 1639. This work was published from copies of the correspondence of Elizabeth with Leicester, Burghley, Walsingham and Sir Thomas Smith, which had been found amongst Digges' papers.
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