Digges (Sir Dudley) The Compleat Ambassador..., first edition, additional engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, M3 marginal tear, some cockling near start, water-stained, contemporary calf, paper spine label titled in manuscript, some wear to extremities, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing D1453], folio, 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.