![[CECIL, William, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598), or Richard LEIGH]. The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza. Found in the chamber of R. Leigh, a seminarie priest. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late Aduertisements, concerning the losses to the Spanish nauie. London: J. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/NYR/2007_NYR_01820_0098_000(015308).jpg?w=1)
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[CECIL, William, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598), or Richard LEIGH]. The copie of a letter sent out of England to Don Bernardin Mendoza. Found in the chamber of R. Leigh, a seminarie priest. Whereunto are adioyned certaine late Aduertisements, concerning the losses to the Spanish nauie. London: J. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588.
4o (171 x 134 mm). Collation: A-E4 F2. (Small rusthole on D2 with loss of a few letters.) 19th-century blue half morocco.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA. The work is often attributed to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, in whose papers the manuscript was found. The present copy has the following variants in part one: last line of A2 recto ends "countrey"; line 2 of C1 recto has "infamie"; C3 verso line 12 from bottom begins "niards, &"; E3,4 have no marginal notes; F2 recto has "The [space] of Octob. 1588." STC 15412.
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[CECIL, William, 1st Baron Burghley]. Certaine Advertisements Out of Ireland, Concerning the Losses and distresses happened to the Spanish Navie, upon the West coastes of Ireland, in their voyage intended from the Northerne Isles beyond Scotland, towards Spaine. London: I. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588.
4o (169 x 127 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title. (Closely trimmed with shoulder notes shaved on three leaves, a bit soiled.) Disbound; cloth folding case. Provenance: A. Dunham? (signature dated 1798 at head of title).
A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
FIRST EDITION, STC's first setting, collating A-B4, [-]2, and with A4r, line 6 from the bottom reading "Byskeyne." Cecil's Certaine Advertisements was issued as the second part of The copie of a letter sent out from England to don Bernadin Mendoza though it is sometimes found separately, as here. The entire work is often attributed to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, in whose papers the manuscript was found. This second part (formerly STC 14257) has its own title-page and pagination and provides a harrowing description of the destruction suffered by the Armada in Irish waters. STC 15412. (2)
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FIRST EDITION OF THIS CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA. The work is often attributed to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, in whose papers the manuscript was found. The present copy has the following variants in part one: last line of A2 recto ends "countrey"; line 2 of C1 recto has "infamie"; C3 verso line 12 from bottom begins "niards, &"; E3,4 have no marginal notes; F2 recto has "The [space] of Octob. 1588." STC 15412.
[With:]
[CECIL, William, 1st Baron Burghley]. Certaine Advertisements Out of Ireland, Concerning the Losses and distresses happened to the Spanish Navie, upon the West coastes of Ireland, in their voyage intended from the Northerne Isles beyond Scotland, towards Spaine. London: I. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588.
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A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
FIRST EDITION, STC's first setting, collating A-B