Author: Herbert, Edward (Lord Herbert of Cherbury):

Title: The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth.

Publication: London: printed by M[ary] Clark, for Henry Herringman [?]. 1682.

Description: Folio, pp. [vi], 636, [xx] + portrait frontispiece. Title-page in red and black, woodcut initials, final leaf blank. 4G with short closed tear to lower margin not affecting text, a few light spots and smudges. Contemporary brown calf, spine label replaced, raised bands, blind-tooled borders and frames. Head- and tail-caps repaired, rubbed, joints creased and a bit worn, corners repaired, some spots and stains but still very good. Ownership inscription of Ja. Winstanley in an old hand to top of title-page.

Third edition (the first published in 1649) of this apologetic Life of Henry VIII by the soldier, statesman and Deist philosopher Edward Herbert (1572-1648), elder brother of the poet George Herbert.

Bibliography: ESTC R37413

Reference Number: [54896]

Price: £850

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