BURNET, Gilbert. History of his own Time. With the suppressed passages of the first volume, and notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, hitherto unpublished, Oxford: Clarendon press, 1823, 7 volumes including one volume of "Additional Notes" (without title), 8°, large paper copy, engraved portrait frontispiece to volumes I-II (frontispieces and titles to the first two vols. browned), contemporary full red morocco gilt, covers with central gilt panel of stylised flowers with elaborate corner-pieces, spine compartments with pattern of intwining flowers repeated on contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces (extremities and lettering-pieces a little rubbed, slight scuff mark to upper cover of vol. VI), gilt turn-ins, g.e. With John Reresby's Travels and Memoirs (London, 1813). (7)

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BURNET, Gilbert. History of his own Time. With the suppressed passages of the first volume, and notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, hitherto unpublished, Oxford: Clarendon press, 1823, 7 volumes including one volume of "Additional Notes" (without title), 8°, large paper copy, engraved portrait frontispiece to volumes I-II (frontispieces and titles to the first two vols. browned), contemporary full red morocco gilt, covers with central gilt panel of stylised flowers with elaborate corner-pieces, spine compartments with pattern of intwining flowers repeated on contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces (extremities and lettering-pieces a little rubbed, slight scuff mark to upper cover of vol. VI), gilt turn-ins, g.e. With John Reresby's Travels and Memoirs (London, 1813). (7)

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With a contemporary manuscript note inserted into the final volume reading: "Additional Notes to Burnet's Own Times delivered gratis from the Clarendon Press to purchasers of the first edition."

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