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Letters written by Sir W. Temple and other Ministers of State, both at Home and Abroad

TEMPLE et al.], [William

Containing an Account of the most important Transactions that pass'd in Christendom from 1665 to 1672.

NICE COPY IN UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING

Published: Printed for J. Tonson at Gray's Inn Gate in Gray's Inn Lane; and A. and J. Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row and R. Simpson at the Harp in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1700

Stock code: 5946

Price: £235.00

With a fine engraved armorial bookplate. The work, considered to be Swift's first publication, is dedicated to William III. A third volume, 'Letters to the King, the Prince of Orange' was published in 1703, but the present work is complete in itself. CBEL II, p.570; Teerink 469; Wing, T641.