1698 1st ed Life of Sir Thomas Smith Queen Elizabeth King Edward IV England

Thomas Smith, a 16th-century English diplomat, was the Secretary of State under King Edward VI of England. He also served under Elizabeth I, and was one of her most trusted Protestant advisors. This rare first edition of the life of Thomas Smith is exceedingly rare!

Item number: #977

Price: $499

STRYPE, John

The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt. ... Principal Secretary of State to King Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth ... With an appendix, wherein are contained some works of his, never before published.

London : For A. Roper and R. Basset, 1698. First edition.

Details:

Collation complete with all pages: 240p, 147p

Binding: Leather; front board attached by single rope cord; text-block broken

References: Wing S 6023; Arber Term Cat. 1698, 14;

Provenance:

Armorial Bookplate – Edward Clarke

Sir Edward George Clarke QC (15 February 1841 – 26 April 1931) was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892. His legal career included representing Oscar Wilde in his disastrous prosecution of the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, and representing the plaintiff in the "baccarat case", during which Sir Edward cross-examined the Prince of Wales.
Handwritten – Charles Prideaux-Brune

Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), a distinguished lawyer, and was enlarged and modified by successive generations, most notably by his great-great-grandson Edmund Prideaux (1693–1745) and by the latter's grandson Rev. Charles Prideaux-Brune (1760–1833). The present building, containing 81 rooms, combines the traditional E-shape of Elizabethan architecture with the 18th-century exuberance of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Gothic.
Handwritten – A.N.R. Harris. May, 1937.
Language: English

Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)

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