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Modern half-leather and marbled boards, 4to, 25 cm, various paginations, a few ills. A collection reprinting curious tracts, here containing 8 items with the last (which is often not present) not listed on the printed contents page but added there in manuscript. The contents are: Part l. Some particulars of the life and death of David Riccio, to which is added the relation of his death, by Lord Ruthen ( 55, [1] pp), London, 1815. Part 2. Account of the quarrel between Arthur Hall and Melchisedech Mallerie . / by Arthur Hall (xvi, 110 pp), London, 1815. Part 3. An account of the Christmas Prince, as it was exhibited in the University of Oxford, in the year 1607, now first published from the original manuscript (xv, [1], 76 pp) London, MDCCCXVI. Part 4. Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Maid Marian, and Hereford Town for a Morris Dance (iv, [1],12 pp), London, 1609. Part 5. The cold yeare, 1614 : a deepe snow (20 pp), London, 1615. Part 6. The life of Long Meg of Westminster ([6],30 pp), London, 1635. Part 7. The famous historie of Fryer Bacon (46 pp), London, n.d. Part.8. Some rules and orders for the government of the house of an Earle, by [Richard Brathwaite] (50 pp), London, 1821. Name, address and date inscribed by a previous owner (1904) on front free endpaper, small clipping from a bookseller's catalogue description pasted on front free endpaper, library perforation stamp on title-page, occasional foxing, some agetoning, otherwise Near Very Good.