[Rarebooks] FS: Sensational Account of Queen Elizabeth's Love Life, 1725, in Beautiful Binding

[Charles Agvent]

ANONYMOUS. THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MOST RENOWNED Q. ELIZABETH AND THE 
E. OF ESSEX, by a Person of Quality. London: J. Darby, 1725. Duodecimo 
(3-1/4" x 5-1/2") in a lovely, unsigned binding of full dark green 
morocco leather with gilt floral decorative devices with small white 
morocco onlays, the spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and 
decorations, gilt dentelles, scarlet silk endpapers and doublures, all 
edges gilt; 119, [1] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece. A translation of 
the anonymous French text LE COMTE D'ESSEX HISTOIRE ANGLOISE, printed in 
Paris in 1678, and first published in English in 1680. This edition of a 
sensational account of Elizabeth's love life seems to be just as scarce. 
Margins shaved not affecting text. Trivial wear. About Fine. 
(#019172)        $1,500.00

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