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CAMDEN, WILLIAM. The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland. 1624

CAMDEN, WILLIAM. The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mary. Title within woodcut architectural border. [12], 250 pages; lacks the final blank. Folio, 286x187 mm, contemporary calf with later lettering piece, top of spine reinforced; first and last few leaves browned along edges with title chipped along fore edge, stain on verso of portrait slightly showing through on recto and offsetting onto title, early owner's note in lower margin of A3v, few modern marginalia on B2v. London: John Haviland for Richard Whitaker, 1624

  • Notes: first edition of a translation by William Udall of the passages relating to Queen Mary from William Camden's 1615 Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha; issue with Haviland/Whitaker imprint and translator's dedication signed "Wil. Stranguage." STC 24509a.

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