B higgons (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. . Hardcover. 374pp. Published 1727. 2nd edition. Full panelled contemporary calf binding, raised bands, gilt title-label. Head & tail of spine a bit worn, extremities a little worn, minor insect damage to outer larger margin of the last couple of gatherings. Good overall, with text clear & crisp. Higgon's best known historical work which he prepared in the late sixteen-nineties but remained unpublished until 1722. This piracy, actually printed in London, appeared before the authorised second edition of 1734 . The book was translated into French in 1729. . . Former Library book. . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: Very Good. . Hardcover. 374pp. Published 1727. 2nd edition. Full panelled contemporary calf binding, raised bands, gilt title-label. Head & tail of spine a bit worn, extremities a little worn, minor insect damage to outer larger margin of the last couple of gatherings. Good overall, with text clear & crisp. Higgon's best known historical work which he prepared in the late sixteen-nineties but remained unpublished until 1722. This piracy, actually printed in London, appeared before the authorised second edition of 1734 . The book was translated into French in 1729. . . Former Library book. .…

8vo. 19cm, Second Edition, with Additions,[vi],354,[13]pp., chapter head & tail pieces and decorated firstinitials, index, in contemporary full rebacked in tan calf, raised bands,contemporary hand-written spine title label, very good to fine condition(). ~ A history of England contemporary with the English Civil War and published first in 1724 - "The Author has lets these Papers lie cover'dwith Dust these 36 Years, till every Person concern'd was remov'd fromthe Stage.". (Author's preface). English historian, poet and JacobiteBevill Higgons(1670-1735) went into exile in France with James II. Hedevoted his life to literary pursuits after being incarcerated in 1695as a suspect in an attempted assassination of William III. The secondedition of this book was dated in 1734 and Higgons dedicated it to TheDuchess of Buckingham and Normandy. This copy has a hand-writtencontemporary (?) note: "This work was ordered by the English Parliamentto be burnt by the Hangman." Unfortunately no verification of this notehas been found.…