COTTON, Robert. An Answer to such Motives As were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry. (1675 - SECOND EDITION)

AUTHOR: COTTON, Robert. 

TITLE: An Answer to such Motives As were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, Inciting him to Affect Arms more than Peace . . . With a short View of the Life and Reign of Henry the Third . . . To which is annexed the French Charity..

PUBLISHER: London: for Henry Morlock, 1675.

DESCRIPTION: SECOND EDITION. 1 vol., (iv)142pp., 7-1/16" x 4-5/8", with the engraved frontis of Cotton by T. Cross, complete, bound in 1/4 brown calf, blind tooled spine, gilt lettered red morocco spine label.

CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, contemporary signature of John Werden (see D.N.B.) dated January 25, 1675/6 to upper edge of title-page, a VERY GOOD copy.

REFERENCE: Wing C6480

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Cotton assembled one of the finest collections of manuscripts and printed books which he freely made available to scholars; both Raleigh and Bacon consulted his library. Envied by kings and politicians, his library was raided, sequestered, sealed and finally purchased by the nation from his grandson, after which a fire damaged many manuscripts. Today the collection is one of the many jewels of the British Library.