Author: CLARENDON (Edward Hyde), Earl of:
Title: The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year, 1641. With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by the King's blessed restoration, and Return upon the 29th of May, in the Year 1660.
Description: Oxford, Printed at the Theater..., 1705, 1706. 3 volumes in 6. 8vo, 192 x 128 mms., pp. [iv], 288, [2], 289 - 720; [x], 466, [2], 467 - 753 [754 blank]; [xvi], 364 [2], 365 - 773 [774 blank, 775 - 849 Index, 850 - 852 blank], engraved portrait in each volume, contemporary panelled calf, paper labels; joints a bit worn, but firm, and generally a good to very good set, with the ownership inscription of A. Burnaby, St. John's College, Cambridge, 1722 in each volume and his autograph on each title-page, and the bookplate of Barbara de Selincourt (whose portrait as a young girl was memorably painted by Herbert James Draper) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. Andrew Burnaby (1702 - 1776), who apparently acquired this set in 1722 when he was a student at St. John's College, named his son, the church of England clergyman and traveller, Andrew Burnaby (1732 - 1812) as well. "Clarendon remained in the mind because of his literary achievement—the fashioning of the most sophisticated and finely balanced history yet written in English (or written for a long time afterwards)—and for an unmistakable rhetorical voice. Clarendon's writings—and his own life—were steeped in the literary stoicism of the early seventeenth century; but in the History he created a distinctive work of art based on a highly wrought style, a forensic dissection of character and issue, and a sense of the depth of individuals' moral responsibility for their actions..." (Oxford DNB). Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon (1609–1674), began work on his history while he was in exile in Jersey, and it was first published in 1702.

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