![[RAGUENET, François.]](/photos/289/main/full_289.jpg "[RAGUENET, François.]")
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4to (250 × 180 mm.), pp. [xxii], 433, [21] (index), frontispiece portrait and 7 engraved plates illustrating coins set in to the text. Occasional marks, affecting frontispiece and title. Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, raised bands and fine floral gilt tooling to panels, marbled endpapers. Upper hinge splitting but holding, a little chipped at head and tail of spine, covers corroded by acid used to produce mottled effect, with boards exposed in a few places and recently coloured to blend with calf. A good copy.
First edition, with a second edition appearing in the same year. Raguenet, a highly cultured and scholarly French priest, wrote this history of Cromwell following the publication of his first work, the highly popular Histoire. His history of Cromwell has been highly acclaimed by modern historians; writing on the "prevailing sobriety of the seventeenth-century historiography of the war", Royce MacGillivray notes: "Remarkably rich in variety though it was, it never produced any parallel to the fantastic history of the war published on the continent in the lives of Cromwell by François Raguenet or by Gregorio Leti who plagiarized Raguenet." (Restoration Historian and the Civil War, 1974).
£300.00
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