Edmund Bohun - Le Caractere de la Reine Elizabet

La Haye, Jean Alberts, 1694. Leather. A very scarce French translation of Edmund Bohun's fascinating study of the character of Queen Elizabeth I. Studying her personal virtue and defects, her policies, the methods of her government both in church and state, and the most notable affairs and events within the Elizabethan period. Edmund Bohun was a renowned English writer on history and politics, best known for his association with High Church proto-Tory thinkers such as William Sancroft, Samuel Parker and Leoline Jenkins. This work was first published in English in 1693. This copy is in French. Rebound in a half crushed morocco binding with speckled paper covered boards. Externally, lovely. Slight offetting to extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned to with scattered spots to the occasional page. Small tidemark to upper fore edge of page 428. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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