The perfect picture of a favourite: or, secret memoirs of Robert Dudley, ... Prime Minister and favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and Stadtholder of Holland. ... Written during his life, and now publish'd from an old manuscript: with a preface by James Drake, ...

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  • The perfect picture of a favourite: or, secret memoirs of Robert Dudley, ... Prime Minister and favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and Stadtholder of Holland. ... Written during his life, and now publish'd from an old manuscript: with a preface by James Drake, ...
  • Leycester's commonwealth.
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Imprint
London: printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by James Woodward; and John Morphew, 1711.
Publication year
1711-1711
ESTC No.
N20065
Grub Street ID
9480
Description
[32],160,163-210,111-118p. ; 8⁰
Note
First published in 1584 as 'The copie of a leter, wryten by a master of arte of Cambrige' and republished in 1641 as 'Leycester's common-wealth'; also published in 1706 as 'Secret memoirs of Robert Dudley', and reissued in that year as 'The second edition corrected'; subsequently reissued in 1721 as 'The picture of a favourite: .. The third edition, corrected'.

Text is continuous despite pagination.
Uncontrolled note
This edition may be a reissue of the 1706 edition. - P.180 misnumbered 081. - DFo mentions advert. but doesn't say where