BENET, GILBERT

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester, Who Died the 26th of July, 1680. Written By His Own Direction on His Death-Bed

London: Printed for Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1680. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Small Octavo. Very Good. Item #36011

17 cm x 10.5 cm, pp. [xii], 182, [8] - publ. adverts. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary full calf, comb marbled endpapers. Covers rubbed and worn, front cover partially detached, engraved bookplate to front pastedown of Horatio Nelson Fisher, very light tanning around page margins, else a very good copy. First edition, second printing (undistinguished by Wing), differs from the first printing in that there is no errata on verso of A8, and with the errors corrected. Wing B-5922.

Price (CAD): $500.00