[HENRY VIII] -- HERBERT OF CHERBURY, Edward, Lord (1583-1648). The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. London: E. G. for Thomas Whitaker, 1649. FIRST EDITION.
Sale 714 - Library of a Midwestern Collector
Nov 5, 2019
10:00AM CT
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$400
Sold for $1,188
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Lot Description
[HENRY VIII] -- HERBERT OF CHERBURY, Edward, Lord (1583-1648). The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. London: E. G. for Thomas Whitaker, 1649.
Small folio (280 x 180 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by W. Faithorne; title printed in red and black within a double rule border; text printed within a single-rule border. Contemporary calf (rebacked and repaired, lacking front flyleaf). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate (bearing the motto “Auspicium Melioris Aevi”).
FIRST EDITION of “one of the best histories in the English language” (Lowndes). Herbert, an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian and poet, began his history of the reign of Henry VIII in 1632, but it was not published until after his death. Walpole called his work “a masterpiece of historic biography.” ESTC R15909; Lowndes 1047.
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