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FIRST DESCRIPTION OF ANGINA PECTORIS CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, first Earl of. The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England,

FIRST DESCRIPTION OF ANGINA PECTORIS CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, first Earl of. The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford... Written by Himself. Engraved frontispiece portrait (offsetting onto title). [4], iii, [1], 523, [12] pages. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked; hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Oxford: Clarendon Printing-House, 1759

  • Notes: first edition. "From the description given by the Earl of Clarendon in his autobiography, his father, Henry Hyde, almost certainly suffered from, and died of, angina pectoris. If this is really so, it is the first recorded case"--Garrison-Morton 2884.

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