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Lot 193
English Civil War.- ["W.S."] Rebels no Saints: or, a Collection of the Speeches, Private Passages, Letters, and Prayers of those Persons Lately Executed..., 1661.
Hammer Price: £450
Description
English Civil War.- ["W.S."] Rebels no Saints: or, a Collection of the Speeches, Private Passages, Letters, and Prayers of those Persons Lately Executed...By a person of quality, engraved frontispiece, small repair to upper corner of frontispiece without loss, small hole to title near head without loss of text, browned, stained, 20th century vellum, stained, [Wing S204], 8vo, Printed, and are to be sold by the several book-sellers in London and Westminster-hall, 1661.
⁂ Scarce copy of this loyalist work. The 'To the reader' signed W.S.. Matthew Jenkinson has argued in favour of its attribution to the historian Sir William Sanderson (Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, The Boydell Press, 2010, pp.40-41).
Provenance: Frederick Fryer (bookplate to front free endpaper).
Description
English Civil War.- ["W.S."] Rebels no Saints: or, a Collection of the Speeches, Private Passages, Letters, and Prayers of those Persons Lately Executed...By a person of quality, engraved frontispiece, small repair to upper corner of frontispiece without loss, small hole to title near head without loss of text, browned, stained, 20th century vellum, stained, [Wing S204], 8vo, Printed, and are to be sold by the several book-sellers in London and Westminster-hall, 1661.
⁂ Scarce copy of this loyalist work. The 'To the reader' signed W.S.. Matthew Jenkinson has argued in favour of its attribution to the historian Sir William Sanderson (Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, The Boydell Press, 2010, pp.40-41).
Provenance: Frederick Fryer (bookplate to front free endpaper).
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