Author: Penrice, Gerard. Ratcliffe, Charles [1693 - 1746] - Subject. Walpole, Horace [1717 - 1797] - Former Owner
Title: A GENUINE And IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT Of The REMARKABLE LIFE And VICISSITUDES Of FORTUNE Of CHARLES RATCLIFFE, ESQ;; Who was beheaded on Tower Hill, Monday December 8.1746. for High Treason, in being in the Rebellion in the Year 1715
Description: London: Printed for the Author, and may be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country, 1747. 1st Edition thus. Period tan half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Black leather spine label. Red edgestain. [2], 182 pp. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2". 1" piece of leather lacking at top of spine. Joints a bit tender. Evidence of bookplate removal to front paste-down, with circular Lord Orford booklabel affixed over. Age-toning & soiling to text paper. An About VG copy. From ESTC, we find this "an expanded version of the text earlier issued anonymously under various titles." A penciled note to the ffep states "From Lord Orford's collection of Jacobite pamphlets".

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