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Leather. Zustand: Very Good. An early posthumous collected edition of the works of Sir Robert Cotton, the renowned antiquarian and founder of the Cotton Library, bound in full calf. The third edition, being a scarce early copy of this collected edition.A collection of works from the renowned antiquary Sir Robert Cotton. Cotton was a member of Parliament and an antiquarian, who is best known for founding the 'Cotton Library', a collection of ancient manuscripts. This collection includes works such as 'That the Kings of England Have been Please.etc', 'A Relation of the Proceedings Against Ambassadors Who Have Miscarried Themselves', and many more, which provide an account of the history, politics and government of the seventeenth century.The register runs as A4, B8-Z8. Collated, lacking the vanishingly scarce frontispiece, otherwise complete.Bound in full contemporary leather and re-backed in modern calf. Bound in full contemporary leather and re-backed in modern calf. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally very smart with minimal wear to the extremities of the boards, and slight marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages, and tidemarks to the corners of the pages from pp.15-83. A contemporary inscription to the title page with slight loss to pp, 95 and the odd spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…