Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift, to which are added other notations. Volume IV only (Second Edition Enlarged)

Burnet, Bishop Gilbert

Published by Oxford, Oxford, 1833

About this Item

bound in full leather with, front & rear, gilt fillet outer border; gilt titles to black panels spine with gilt ruling; yellow end-papers; integral silk bookmark (worn at ends). Bishop Burnet was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. He was always closely associated with the Whig party, and was one of the few close friends in whom King William III confided. This is volume IV of the six volume edition & includes Book V "Of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary" & Book VI "Of the Life and Reign of King William III"; followed by a table of contents of the foregoing volume. The notes & other notations appear at the bottom of relevant pages. Enlarged Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 577 pages. One volume of the 6-volume set. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. no Dust Jacket as published. Top edge brown. extremities of leather covers badly worn though the spine is in good order. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; King William & Queen Mary; King William III; William of Orange; Britain/UK; 17th to 18th centuries; Politics & Government. Inventory No: 4057.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift, to which are added other notations. Volume IV only (Second Edition Enlarged)
• Publisher: Oxford, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1833
• Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather)
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Fair
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