The compleat ambassador: . or two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France. Together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho: Smith, and others. Wherein, as clear as a mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood; with many remarkable passages of state, not at all mentioned in any history. Faithfully collected
Sir Dudley Digges(1583-1639)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 3012553
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],232,231-414,419-434,439-441,[9]p. . ill.. . fol... Incomplete: wanting a leaf from the first count. Seller's code at base of front pastedown, with price (seventeenth-century?). Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: "William Lucy Esqr, of Charlecote in Warwickshire" [i.e. Rev. William Lucy, d. 1723]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full mottled calf binding; blind-tooled fillets; spine sewn onto five raised bands, with label: Diggs's Compleat ambassador; edge of text-block marbled; rolled edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Dudley Digges(1583-1639) Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532 - 1590)