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
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3012564
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],232,231-414,419-434,439-441,[9]p. . ill.. . fol. Running number: 1449. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on second front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Seventeenth-century former shelfmark on front boards: "C.6.8". Nineteenth-century pencilled former shelfmark on first fromt endleaf: "9G7". Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf over boards, double blind fillet frame and double blind rule parallel to spin, blind fleurons in corners; single gilt rule along board edges; six raised bands, gilt title 'DEGGES'S [sic] | AMBASSAD' on remains of original goatskin label; six thongs laced in, parchment endleaf guards; red sprinkled leaf edges. Rebacked upside down.
Makers and roles
Sir Dudley Digges(1583-1639), author Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532 - 1590), author