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The secret history of the most renown'd Q. Elizabeth, and Earl of Essex. By a person of quality.

Accession number
PML 8214.2
Creator
Person of quality.
Published
Cologne [i.e. London] : Printed for Will with the Wisp, at the Sign of the Moon in the Ecliptick, 1761.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Added woodcut t.p., with title: The E. of Essex and Qu. Eliz. a Novel.
In two parts. Part 2 has separate woodcut and letterpress titlepages; the pagination and register is continuous.
First published in French in 1678 as 'Comte d'Essex histoire Angloise' and in English, 1680.
The imprint is false; possibly printed in London.
Vertical chain lines.
Signatures: A-E¹².
Description
[4], 114 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
Classification
Department