[Rarebooks] FS-Mary Queen of Scots

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS].  Robert Cecil.  The Copie of
a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Leycester . . .
With a report of certeine petitions and declaratations made to
the Qveenes Maiestie . . . And her Maiesties answeres therunto by
her selfe deliuered [etc.]. S.T.C. 6052. Quarto.  Imprinted at
London by Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1586.  Modern 3/4
calf over marbled boards, some browning and a trace of marginal
worming, else a good crisp copy; without the leaf containing the
woodcut arms. [76766 ACT] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=76766 $ 3,500.00

The famous debate as Elizabeth was determining whether Mary Queen
of Scots should be executed, cast as a report from Cecil to
Leicester, but in fact carefully reviewed and corrected by
Elizabeth, prefiguring Cecil and Elizabeth's close relationship.

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