The lives and characters of the most illustrious persons, British and foreign, who died in the year 1712 : viz, The Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Leeds... The whole interspersed with many secret memoirs, concerning their respective families...
1714, 2nd Edition (?). London : printed by S. Holt, for Andrew Bell, in Cornhill, E. Curll and J. Pemberton, in Fleet-street. Good copy bound in contemporary full aniline calf. Spine bands and panel edges worn, with general surface wear evident to boards as with age. Single gilt-lined border to panels. Corners bumped. Pages foxed and tanned, mainly to margins. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages; Physical description: 415p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Biography -- 18th century -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Notes: "Generally attributed to John Le Neve", Lowndes. Originally published in 1712. Continues: His Memoirs British and foreign, of the lives and families of the most illustrious persons who dy'd in the year 1711. With head and tail pieces, and historiated initials. Item #198451
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