[Gunpowder Plot] Clark, Samuel. The Gunpowder-Treason: Being a Remembrancer to England, of that ancient deliverance from that Horrid Plot, hatched by the Bloody Papists, 1605...

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London: Printed by A. Maxey for John Rothwel, 1657. 16mo sheets window-mounted onto folio sheets. 40 unpaginated leaves (F-G8, I4). Title-page and text leaves ruled in red. Extra-illustrated with 17 contemporary engravings, and one later facsimile letter, depicting the events and conspirators, all mounted. Full brown morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards unevenly faded, extremities and joints rubbed; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; by Riviere & Son; spotting to text leaves and plates; open tear at bottom of F2. From the library of W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, and with his gilt morocco book-plate on front paste-down; "Bruton Copy" in pencil on verso of front free endpaper (Henry W. Bruton). OCLC 613403691; Not in Wing

A rare and extra illustrated copy of this work on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an unsuccessful attempt by English Catholics to blow up Parliament and assassinate King James I.

A 1657 edition of Clark's Englands remembrancer has a section with a separate title page "The gunpowder-treason ... ". However, this work was printed by "J. Owsley" and is in a different setting from this text. See Wing C4510.

OCLC locates one copy, at the Huntington Library.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

[Gunpowder Plot] Clark, Samuel. The Gunpowder-Treason: Being a Remembrancer to England, of that ancient deliverance from that Horrid Plot, hatched by the Bloody Papists, 1605...

[Gunpowder Plot] Clark, Samuel. The Gunpowder-Treason: Being a Remembrancer to England, of that ancient deliverance from that Horrid Plot, hatched by the Bloody Papists, 1605...