CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of (1609-74). The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Oxford: Clarendon, 1759, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, engraved vignettes and historiated initials (small hole to portrait, small wax stain to Xx2 and 6D1 and margin of 3 other leaves, some offsetting from vignettes, occasional spotting), modern calf-backed boards. [Lowndes II, 468: "full of a thousand curious anecdotes"]