First Edition of The Life of the Earl of Clarendon

Edward Earl of Clarendon. THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, AND CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Oxford: Clarendon Printing House, 1759. First edition. 2 parts in 3 vols. (complete). Leather bound, gilt on spine. 8vo; 264pp. plus index; 539pp.; pages 540-993 plus index. Each with half-title and printed marginalia. ESTC T55769.
8 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.
From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.
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General wear to boards with rubbed corners, wear to head and tail with small losses, cracking and separation at joints with light cracking at hinges, bindings still sturdy overall; internal toning and light foxing, staining at endpapers likely from binder's glue, several pages with minor losses at margins not impacting text. A good, solid set of this autobiography of 17th-century intellectual, lawyer, and political figure.