Author: TEMPLE et al.] [William
Title: Letters written by Sir W. Temple and other Ministers of State, both at Home and Abroad. Containing an Account of the most important Transactions that pass'd in Christendom from 1665 to 1672. NICE COPY IN UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING
Description: Printed for J. Tonson, at Gray's Inn Gate in Gray's Inn Lane; and A. and J. Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row, and R. Simpson, at the Harp in S. Paul's Church-yard,, 1700. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece engraved on wood by Robert White after Lely, some moderate foxing throughout; attractively bound in early eighteenth-century panelled tree calf tooled in blind, backs gilt extra with five raised bands, compartments tooled to a floral design, leather labels gilt, sprinkled edges, joints of first volume worn and cracked (but binding entirely sound), corners of first volume lightly bruised, a very good, crisp copy with broad untrimmed margins. With a fine engraved armorial bookplate. The work, considered to be Swift's first publication, is dedicated to William III. A third volume, 'Letters to the King, the Prince of Orange' was published in 1703, but the present work is complete in itself. CBEL II, p.570; Teerink 469; Wing, T641.

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