AN IMPARTIAL COLLECTION OF THE GREAT AFFAIRS OF STATE.

NALSON, John.  AN IMPARTIAL COLLECTION OF THE GREAT AFFAIRS OF STATE, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SCOTCH REBELLION IN THE YEAR 1639, TO THE MURDER OF KING CHARLES I. Two Volumes.

London: S. Mearne, and others, 1682-1683. Folio. Contemporary full-calf. Frontispiece, (vi), lxxix, 817, (15) pages; Frontispiece, (vii), xii, 920, (22) pages, 1 plate. First editions.

"Wherein the first occasions, and the whole series of the late troubles in England, Scotland, & Ireland are faithfully represented."  A historical account of the events surrounding and leading to the English Civil War.  Volume I includes "The Mind of the Frontispiece" [Poem] and the engraved frontispiece by R. White in which Britannia is depicted crying in front of a ruined church in flames with battles in the background.  Engraved portrait of the Earl of

                                                                                                 

Stafford in second volume.  Eighteenth century owner's signature on title page.  Very good.

 

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