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
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3012560
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],232,231-414,419-434,439-441,[9]p. . ill.. . fol... Former shelfmark: Kk.10.14. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754; also found in Wimpole books acquired by his successors]. - Inscribed in ink on title page: 'E Libris Thomae Carthow 1709'. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, blind-ruled, gold-ruled spine, red spine-label, gold-lettered; boards detached.
Makers and roles
Sir Dudley Digges(1583-1639) Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532 - 1590)