17th-century England and English Civil War Collection of bindings, 19th century including: Lonsdale, John Lowther, Viscount. Memoir of the Reign of James II. York: T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1808. First edition, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-title, inscribed 'For Lord Redesdale, with Lord Lonsdale's Comps, Janr 23d 1808', recipient's ownership inscription to title-page, joints cracked); Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. The Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, Knight, LL.D., the Friend of the Earl of Strafford. London: John Nichols and Son, 1810. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf gilt, marked, Syston Park bookplate; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1836. New edition, 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, Clan Macaulay bookplates; Idem. The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... Written by Himself. Oxford: at the Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; Vaughan, Robert, editor. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels, Eton leaving inscription; Calamy, Edmund. An Historical Account of My Own Life. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan half calf, merlion device gilt to spines, headcaps worn; [English Civil War]. Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King Charles the First. London: R. Wilks, 1815. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, bookplates of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe (1827-1899) re-imposed; and approx. 20 others similar (e.g. Gilbert Burnet, History of his own Time, 1766, third edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, portrait; Godfrey Goodman, The Court of King James the First, 1839, 2 volumes; Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, 1808; William Lilly's History of his Life and Times, from the Year 1602 to 1681, 1823, contemporary straight-grain green morocco gilt, etc.), the lot sold as bindings, not subject to return (approx. 50 volumes)

Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).