Smeeton's Historical & biographical tracts ...

Smeeton's Historical & biographical tracts ...

Westminster : G. Smeeton, 1820.

2 v. : ports., plates ; 21 x 17 cm

Engr. t.-p.

"250 copies printed, and of these many copies were destroyed by fire."--Lowndes, Bibliographer's manual.

Each tract has special t.-p.

v. 1. Clarke, S. England's remembrancer ... 1657. Reprinted, 1819. Clarke, S. The fatal vespers ... 1657. Reprinted, 1817. Williams, J., bp. of Chichester] History of the gunpowder treason .. 1679. Reprinted 1819. The King's Majesties declaration to his subjects, concerning lawful sports to be used. 1618. Reprinted, 1817. Weldon, Sir A. The court and character of King James ... 1650. Reprinted, 1817. [Scott, T.] A choice narrative of Court Gondamor's transaction during his embassy in England. By Sir Robert Cotton [pseud] .. 1659. Reprinted, 1820. Historical and biographical memoirs of George Villiers I., duke of Buckingham. 1819. The life and death of Henrietta Maria de Bourdon ... 1685. Reprinted, 1820. Remarks on the life and death of the fam'd Mr. Blood. 1680. Reprinted, 1817.

v. 2.An historical account of the heroick life and magnaninous actions of ... James, duke of Monmouth ... 1683. Reprinted, 1820. [Vicars, J.] England's worthies ... 1647. Reprinted, 1819. [Harris, W.] An historical and critical account of Hugh Peters. After the manner of Mr. Bayle ... 1751. Reprinted, 1818. [Cotton, Sir R. B. A short view of the long life and reign of Henry the Third ... 1627. Reprinted, 1820. [Defoe, D.] The dumb philosopher ... 1719. Reprinted, 1818. No jest like a true jest ... 1674. Reprinted, 1817. Second Captain Hind. [n.d.] Reprinted, 1817.

Bookplate of Orwell Park.

Great Britain -- England.

DA370 .S63

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