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Condición: UNSPECIFIED. London, 1739. 4th edition Ilustrador. London, 1739. 4th edition. Selden's Historical Discourse Selden, John [1584-1654] Bacon, Nathaniel [1593-1660], Editor, Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden, Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon, Of Grays Inn, Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for Daniel Browne. and A. Millar, 1760. Two parts. [iv], viii, xiii-xix, 203, [1]; xii, 178, [8] pp. Leaves between [iv] and xiii-xix bound out of order. Text complete. Folio (12-1/2" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary calf, gilt rules to boards, gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine, speckled edges, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, boards beginning to separate, but quite secure. Title page printed in red and black. Light toning to interior, light soiling to upper margins and light foxing in a few places, minor worming to front pastedown and free endpaper, light browning and offsetting to title page and sections of following leaf, upper-outside corner removed from title page with no loss to text. $200. * Fourth edition. Often attributed to Bacon, the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." (DNB). "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" (Sweet & Maxwell). The final edition, the fifth was published in 1760. Dictionary of National Biography I:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99. English Short-Title Catalogue T142997.

Condición: UNSPECIFIED. London, 1760. 5th edition Ilustrador. London, 1760. 5th edition. Selden's Historical Discourse Selden, John [1584-1654] Bacon, Nathaniel [1593-1660], Editor, Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden, Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon, Of Grays Inn, Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar, 1760. [iv], viii, xiii-xix, 203, [1]; xii, 178, [8] pp. Complete. Quarto (11-1/4" x 9-1/4"). Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands to spine, gilt fillets to boards, gilt-stamped title on spine rubbed away. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints and front hinge cracked, negligible light gatoring to spine, some chipping to spine ends, corners bumped and somewhat worn, early armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text, occasional light browning to outer edges of margins. $500. * Fifth and final edition. Often attributed to Bacon, the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." (DNB). "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" (Sweet & Maxwell). Dictionary of National Biography I:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99 (9). English Short-Title Catalogue T108171.

Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Final Edition of Selden's Historical Discourse Selden, John [1584-1654]. Bacon, Nathaniel [1593-1660], Editor, Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden, Esq; By Nathaniel Bacon, Of Grays Inn, Esq; Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar, 1760. [iv], viii, xiii-xix, [1], 203, [1]; xii, 178, [8] pp. Complete. Includes one-page publisher advertsiemenst. Quarto (11-1/4" x 9"). Recent library buckram, red and black lettering pieces, gilt-stamped library name and paper shelf label to spine, endleaves added, blind-stamped library name and small security tag to front board. Light rubbing corners bumped, library stamps to edges, endleaves and title page, front endleaf partially detached, light browning and light foxing to text. Light soiling to title page, gift inscription dated 1841 (From C.A. Paulson to C.A. Paulson, Jr.) and owner signature (of C.B. Paulson, dated 1850) to head, faint embossed library stamp to foot. $500. * Fifth and final edition. Often attributed to Bacon, the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." (DNB). "The first edition having become so rare a second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint" (Sweet & Maxwell). Dictionary of National Biography 1:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99 (9). English Short-Title Catalogue T108171.

Fourth Edition. Large Folio [330 x 210 mm], contemporary full calf, the spine with 5 raised bands on cords. Two Parts in One Volume. Part 1 [i-xvii] 1-203pp, Part 2 [i-iv] 1-188pp [i-iv]. Advert leaf at front. With the bookplate of "Watson Williams, Esq, of Penbedw in the county of Denbigh" superimposed upon the earlier bookplate of Richard Mostyn of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire. Some minor dampstaining to lower right margins; Complete. Contemporary calf slightly rubbed, minor wear at edges, outer front hinge slightly cracking but holding firm, a nice copy, Very Good overall. Watkin Williams (1742? - 1808), of Penbedw, near Flint, Denbighshire and Erbistock, Flintshire, was a Welsh politician and administrator.

Condición: UNSPECIFIED. London, 1689. 4th edition Ilustrador. London, 1689. 4th edition. Selden's Historical Discourse Selden, John [1584-1654] Bacon, Nathaniel [1593-1660], Editor, Attributed Author. An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Ancient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from Some Manuscript Notes of John Selden by Nathaniel Bacon of Grays Inn, Esquire. London: Printed for D. Browne and A. Millar, 1689. [xx], 203, [5]; 168, 167-188, [6] pp. Pagination irregular, text complete. Two parts, each with title page (dated 1682). First part preceded by general title page (dated 1689). Folio (13" x 8"). Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in period style, blind panels to boards, raised bands, lettering piece and blind author name and publication date to spine, hinges mended. light rubbing and shallow scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to board edges, corners bumped and worn. Light toning to interior, somewhat heavier in places, light foxing to a few leaves, bookplate residue, early owner name ("Nico: Daynton") and early hand-lettered shelf number to front pastedown. $850. * Fourth edition. Often attributed to Bacon, the Historical Discourse "is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of the institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions." (DNB). According to Sweet & Maxwell, the first edition had become so rare that a "second edition was secretly printed in 1672 which was suppressed. It was again secretly reprinted in 1682 and the publishers were prosecuted. The 1682 edition appears to have been reissued in 1689 with the 1682 imprint." Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) I:836-837. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:99. English Short-Title Catalogue R16514.

Condición: UNSPECIFIED. London: Printed for Matthew Walbancke 1647. (xii 336pp.). BOUND IN WITH: The Continuation of an Historicall Discourse of the Government of England Until the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Preface being a Vindication of the ancient way of Parliaments in England. . London: Matthew Walbancke and Henry Twyford 1651. (xxiv 316pp.). Thick sm. 4to. The 2 parts bound together in orig. full old calf (rebacked preserving the orig. red titling-label on spine). Some aging/discolouration of text but overall a fine complete copy of the 1st edition of the English Constitution. Rare.

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. A very good copy in largely contemporary binding. In two parts with separate title pages dated 1647 and 1651 respectively. It is suggested that John Selden (1584-1654) is the true author of the work, which was then edited by Nathaniel Bacon - whose name is on the title to the Continuation. However, this is still a matter of argument. The work was produced originally as the Civil War came to its close and the Commonwealth was established and is written against the royal prerogative. A 'secret' or 'private' edition was produced in 1672 after the restoration of the monarchy. It is stated that 750 copies were produced and many were burnt or otherwise destroyed. The edition has the 2 works in one, is dated as for the 1647/51 edition and there are variants of it. Detailed study (Joseph A Dane, University of Chicago Press) suggests that the remnants of 1672 copies were put back together and sections reprinted later. This copy is clearly a 1672 'secret' edition, of which parts are likely to be later printings. According to ESTC this copy has the Title page in setting A; Quires B-C are in setting 2; and Quire D in setting (b). The binding is full calf with contemporary boards with blind ruled lines and new matching spine with raised bands and title label. Endpapers have been retained with repair, and there are some ink numerals to the front and a latin quotation with initials to the verso of the fep. Contents: title 1647; To Consideration 2pp; Contents listing 4pp; Prologue 4 pp; text pp 1-323 Finis; Table 11pp; Finis; Title 1651; contents 2pp; Preface 20pp; text pp 1-307; table 8pp; Finis. All with decorative headpieces. The paper is lightly toned, particularly to edges, but the copy is very clean with crisp paper. Book size 20 cm x 15 cm.

Edition : Fifth edition, Contemporary full calf, upper and lower boards with gilt floral centerpiece within two thin gilt lines, rebacked expertly preserving the original spine in six compartments of raised bands and a gilt diamond pattern, gilt morocco label on two, gilt text on six, gilt tooling along board edges, endpapers marbled., Nathaniel Bacon was the half brother of Sir Francis Bacon and the son of Nicholas Bacon. He was a member of the Suffolk committee for the defence against the Royalists, an M.P. for Cambridge University and Master of requests during Richard Cromwell's protectorate. The book, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of its institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and hierarchical pretensions. , Size : Large 4to, Volume : Two volumes in one., References : Graesse I:247., P. title, blank, advertisement (2), half title, blank, advertisement iii-iv, contents v-vi, preface vii-viii, index xiii-xix, blank, 1-203; half-title, blank, preface iii-xii, 1-178, contents (2), index (5). Occasional faint foxing, otherwise an excellent copy.

1st Edition - 2nd state. Minor worming with text largely unaffected. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the gilt-blocked original label laid back. Remains a particularly well-preserved example; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical desc.: 2 volumes bound in 1. [12], 323 p. 307 p. [13] p. ; 20 cm. Note: COPAC and other related entries refer to an author's signature: his name in manuscript does appear in this copy but we presume that the printer added this, following their noticing that the author's name did not appear on title page post print. Anonymous by John Selden, edited by Nathaniel Bacon. In this edition, printer's name and address in two lines. B1r has row of type ornaments at head; C1r has woodcut ornament; the 'D' of D1 is under the 'n' of 'and'. Wing mistakenly identifies the state with imprint word "Walbanke" as the 1672 reprint. Part 2 titled 'The continuation of an historical discourse of the government of England, until the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth'. (1651). ESTC citation no.: R483640. Subject: Constitutional history - Great Britain. 1 Kg.

1st Edition - 2nd state. Minor worming with text largely unaffected. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the gilt-blocked original label laid back. Remains a particularly well-preserved example; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical desc.: 2 volumes bound in 1. [12], 323 p. 307 p. [13] p. ; 20 cm. Note: COPAC and other related entries refer to an author's signature: his name in manuscript does appear in this copy but we presume that the printer added this, following their noticing that the author's name did not appear on title page post print. Anonymous by John Selden, edited by Nathaniel Bacon. In this edition, printer's name and address in two lines. B1r has row of type ornaments at head; C1r has woodcut ornament; the 'D' of D1 is under the 'n' of 'and'. Wing mistakenly identifies the state with imprint word "Walbanke" as the 1672 reprint. Part 2 titled 'The continuation of an historical discourse of the government of England, until the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth'. (1651). ESTC citation no.: R483640. Subject: Constitutional history - Great Britain. 1 Kg.

pp. (xvi), 323, (i) blank, (xi) Table, (i) blank [A1 is an engraved title]; (xxvii), (i) blank, 307, (i) blank, (viii) Table. Eighteenth century panelled calf newly rebacked, the engraved title by W[ILLIAM]. M[ARSHALL]. a little dusty at the margins and with the fore-edge margin slightly chipped, the second title with a few notes in ink and pencil indicating that the author was Selden, and few pencil notes elsewhere, a few leaves in the second part with an old and faint brown mark in the fore-margin and a few other leaves with a brown spot, but overall a very good copy. *ESTC - R8530, this being the first, true, edition, distinguished by the 2-line imprint, the publisher's name, 'Mathew' with one 't', Editor's dedication signed: Nath. Bacon, additional title page (A1r), engraved, "Semper eadem or the uniforme government of England", signed: W.M. sculp:, i.e. William Marshall. A later reprint, 1672, but still dated 1647, may often be confused with this but has the imprint on one line only.

Two Parts in One Volume (complete). Large - Quarto (24,5 cm x 29,5 cm). Part One: XIX, (1), 203 pages / Part Two: XII, 178, (plus 8 unnumbered pages Index). Hardcover / Stunning, recent masterbinding with quarter - leather over buckram-covered-boards; original spine-label applied. Excellent condition with text being especially clean and in wonderful condition. Rare and important publication on british law and parliamentary history. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Includes for example in the first part: Of the Britons and their Government / Concerning the Conversion of the Britons unto the Faith / Of the entry of the Romans into Britain and the State thereof during their continuance / Of the entry of the Saxons and their manner of Government / Of Austin's coming to the Saxons in England and his Entertainment and Work / Of the imbodying of Prelacy into the Government of the Kingdom / Of Metropolitans in the Saxons time / Of the Saxon Bishops / Of the Saxon Presbyters / Of inferior Church Officers amongst the Saxons / Of the several Precincts of Jurisdictions of Church-Governors amongst the Saxons / A brief Censure of the Saxon Prelatical of Church Government / Of the Saxons Commonwealth and the Government thereof, and first of the King / Of the Saxon Nobility / Of the Freemen amongst the Saxons / Of the Villains amongst the Saxons / Of the Grand Council amongst the Saxons called the Micklemote / Of the Council of Lords / Of the manner of the Saxon Government in the time of War / Of the Government of the Saxon Kingdom in the times of peace; and first of the division of the Kingdom into Shires and their Officers / Of the County-court and Sheriff's Torn / Of the division of the County into Hundreds and the Officers and Court thereunto belonging / Of the division of the Hundreds into Decennaries / Of Franchises and first of the Church-franchise / Of the second Franchise called the Marches / Of county Palatines / Of Franchises of the Person / Of Mannors / Of Courts incident and united unto Mannors / Of Townships and their Markets / Of the Forests [Forest] / Concerning Judges in Courts of Justice / Of the proceedings in Judicature by Indicment, Appeal, Presentment and Action / Of the several manners of extraordinary trial by Torture, Ordeal, Compurgators and Battle / Of the ordinary manner of Trial amongst the Saxons by Inquest / Of passing Judgement and Execution / Of the penal laws amongst the Saxons / An Epilogue to the Saxons Government / Of the Norman Entrance / Of the Title of the Norman Kings to the English Crown; that it was by election / That the Government of the Normans proceeded upon the Saxon principles and first of Parliaments / Of the Immunities of the Saxon Freemen under the Norman Government / Recollection of certain Norman Laws concerning the Crown / Of the like Laws that concern common Interest of Goods / Of Laws that concern common Interest of Lands / Of diverse Laws made concerning the execution of Justice / Of the Militia during the Norman time / That the entry of the Normans into this Government could not be by Conquest / Of the Government during the Reigns of Stephen, Henry the Second, Richard the First and John; and of their Titles to the Crown and Disposition in Government / Of the state of the Nobility in England from the Conquest and during the Reigns of these several Kings / Of the English Commonalty and their Judges / Of the condition of the Nobility of England till the time of Edward the Third / Of the state of the English Clergy until the time of Edward the Third - and herein concerning the Statutes of Circumspecte agatis, Articuli Cleri, and of General Councils and National Synods / Of the condition of Freemen of England and the Grand Charter and several Statutes concerning the same, during the Reigns of these Kings / Of Courts and their proceedings / Of Coroners, Sheriffs and Crown-Pleas / Of the Militia during these Kings Reig.

Condición: UNSPECIFIED. Second (so-called ?Secret?) Edition. Small 4to (190 x 145mm). 2 Parts. [12], 323, [14]; [24], 307, [9] pp. A little minor spotting in places. Contemporary mottled calf, covers ruled in blind, manuscript paper label to the spine, marbled edges (joints and edges rubbed, some wear to the spine, endleaves browned by the turn-ins, paper spine-label darkened). ?London: for Matthew Walbancke at Grays- | Inn-Gate. 1647.? [i.e. London: for John Starkey c. 1672 or 1677] ?This [scarcity of the first edition] occasion'd the private Reprinting of it in the year 1672, which as soon as the Government perceived, they Prosecuted both the Publisher and the Book so violently, that many hundreds of the Books were seized and burnt; .? - John Starkey, bookseller, preface to the 1689 folio edition. Wing B349. Entered by ESTC under John Selden. This attribution is based on a statement by the publisher John Starkey in the preface to the 1689 edition: ?It was well known to, and owned by, the late Lord Chief Justice Vaughan, who was one of the Executors of the Great and learned Mr. Selden, that the Ground-work was his, upon which Mr. Bacon raised this Superstructure, which hath been and is so well esteem'd, that it is now again made publick, by John Starkey.? Although he is only named on the title to the Continuation (Part 2) and then in a way that could suggest he only wrote the preface, it is certain that the book was written not by Selden but by Nathaniel Bacon (1593-1660), presbyterian MP for Cambridge University in the Long Parliament from 1645 (briefly excluded in Pride's 'Purge' in December 1648). Joseph A. Dane has unravelled the complictaed story of this edition in his essay, ?Seized, Burnt, and Variant: Bibliographical Note on Nathaniel Bacon, 'An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England' [1672]?, in PBSA, Vol. 102/1 (March 2008), p. 95-102. This is the original issue of the ?1672 reprint of the 1647-51 first edition with the first printings of sheets A-D of Part 1 and sheets C-D of Part 2. Dane concludes that only those sheets were seized by the authorities and burnt, not the ?many hundreds? of copies of the complete book that was suggested by Jghn Starkey in 1689. These sheets all had to be reprinted. Documents relating to the printing. Document sin the State Papers relating to the printing all date to 1677. The title is ESTC's setting (A), sheets B-C are in setting (2) and sheet D in setting (b) and the book equates to Dane's issue 1 (of 2) before the first three sheets of part 1 part 2 Bacon's Historicall Discourse is one of the key texts of 17th Century radical republicanism, a danger to the state after the Restoration, and a foundation-stone of the so-called 'Whig Interpretation of History' which sought to find historical precedents for an anti-monarchical system in vestiges of an ancient pre-Norman Anglo-Saxon constitution. Janelle Greenberg, in an excellent analysis of the book in her entry for Bacon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, wrote: ?But Bacon's greatest service to anti-Stuart causes came in the form of a political tract entitled An Historical Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England, which was probably written using notes collected by John Selden. . Continually republished well into the eighteenth century, when it won the praise of the elder William Pitt, An Historical Discourse was secretly reprinted in 1672, in 1682 at the time of the exclusion crisis, in 1689 at the revolution, again in 1739, and by 1750 in a fifth edition. So fearful were the royalists of Bacon's message that Charles II's government attempted to suppress it by prosecuting the radical printer John Starkey, perhaps a member of the Green Ribbon Club, who dared to publish it. . Charles II and his advisers were right to be scared, for Bacon's An Historical Discourse argued with unrelenting force an anti-royalist ideology of enormous persuasive power. This was the radical ancient constitution which, according to modern scholarship, was first fully articulated during the civil wars by polemicists such as William Prynne and Bacon himself. Early a mainstay of the Long Parliament's cause, the ideology consisted of the following propositions: first, while government in general was from God, the particular form came from the people. In England the people in the remote past had made a contract with their ruler, a contract in which their obedience to him rested upon his governing according to the laws made by both king and community. The ruler who failed to act upon the bargain unkinged himself and left his subjects free to replace him with another.? Provenance: This copy links two prominent political figures and landowners in Westmorland - both on the Tory rather than Whig part of the spectrum. It was given in 1690 by Sir Christopher Musgrave to Sir Daniel Fleming, of Rydal Hall, Ambleside, and it has Fleming's signature and inscription ?Ex dono Christophori Musgrave de Eden-Hall in Comitatu Cumbria militis & Baronetti; A.D. 1690.? on the flyleaf; ti has his characteristic library markings: catalogue heading ?Eng.? [?England?] underlined on the front pastedown, flyleaf and title, the unpaginated leaves at beginning and end of both parts numbered in ink, the words ?First Part? on the title underlined and with a marginal comment ?*Second part, 337?, ink note ?Exa.? [?Examinatur?] at the end. Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Bt (1631/2-1704) was MP for Carlisle (in six parliaments from 1660-90), for Westmorland 1690-95, 98-1700, 1702-04, Appleby 1695-8, Oxford University 1698-1700, Totnes 1701-02. He was knighted in 1671 and succeeded his brother in the baronetcy c. 1687. Sir Daniel Fleming, Kt (1633-1701), though active in local administration as a JP, commissioner for militia and sheriff, family commitments kept him largely away from London and he was MP for Cockermouth only from 1685-87 (?The Loyal Parliament?). He was, ?a partisan moderate with considerable local prestige an.