Author: RERESBY (John):
Title: The Memoirs Of the Honourable Sir John Reresby, Bart. And last Governor of York. Containing several Private and Remarkable Transactions From the Restoration to the Revolution Inclusively. To which is added a Copious Index.
Description: London: Printed for Samuel Harding..., 1735. 8vo, pp. [iv], 287, 286 - 349 [350 blank, 351 - 366 Index], with, curiously, a title-page (?cancellandum) cut in half horizontally and bound between pp. [360] and [361] and pp. [364 - 365] of the index, title-page(s) in red and black, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label. A very good copy. These memoirs were first published in 1734 in quarto and octavo, with this second issue of the octavo edition in 1735. I have no explanation for the curious configuration in the index of the second title-page. James J. Cartwright edited the work from the original manuscript and published it in 1875. Andrew Browning produced another edition in 1936, but the definitive edition had to wait until 1991, when it was edited by W. A. Speck and M. K. Geiter for the Royal Historical Society.

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