AN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE LAWS AND GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE FIRST TIMES TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. WITH A VINDICATION OF THE ANTIENT WAY OF PARLIAMENTS IN ENGLAND
London: Daniel Browne, 1739. Fourth Edition. Quarto, [4], vii-viii, iii-vi, [2], xiii-xix, 178, 8. Good; bound in contemporary leather with gilt decorations, burgundy spine label with gilt titling, some surface marks to covers, wear and damage to spine edges and corners; hinges compromised and boards slightly shaken but binding else tight; dyed red text block very clean; pages clean, with creasing to upper corner of several pages not impacting text; RWO.
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Bacon's 'Historical Discourse' is a constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of its institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and to hierarchical pretensions. For this reason the first edition of it, published after the Restoration in 1665, was suppressed by the government, and for the publication in 1676 its printer was prosecuted, and had to take refuge abroad.