MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES. CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY ..

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  • London: W. Mears, 1732
By Eustace Budgell
London: W. Mears, 1732. The Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Eustace Budgell's account. "Budgell had become one of the Grub Street authors...[and] was also protected by the Earl of Orrery, the editor of 'Phalaris,' who had been arrested on suspicion of Jacobitism in 1722, and was hostile to Walpole's government" [DNB, Vol. 7, p. 225]. Bound in later calf with morocco label and new endpapers; engraved frontispiece. (ESTC T97292). Very Good binding.

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