Extra-Illustrated Copy of Welwood's Memoirs | Signed Pembroke Copy |1700

Welwood Memoirs Extra Illustrated 1700 with Six Hollar Portraits Fifty-five Engraved Portraits in the Signed Earl of Pembroke Copy

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Welwood: Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceding the Revolution in 1688. By James Welwood, M.D. Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Fellow of the College of Physicians, London. The Second Edition Corrected. London: Printed for Tim. Godwin, at the Queen’s-Head against St. Dunstan’s-Church in Fleetstreet. 1700. Extra-illustrated with 55 engraved portraits, laid in to size. Signed by Earl Pembroke numerous times. Tall octavo (20 cm x 12 cm x 4 cm), 405 pages, 55 engraved portraits and illustrations with a frontispiece of King William III. Six portraits by Hollar.

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Welwood, James, Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceding the Revolution in 1688. By James Welwood, M.D. Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Fellow of the College of Physicians, London. The Second Edition Corrected. London: Printed for Tim. Godwin, at the Queen’s-Head against St. Dunstan’s-Church in Fleetstreet. 1700.

Extra-illustrated with 55 engraved portraits, laid in to size. Signed by Earl Pembroke numerous times. Tall octavo (20 cm x 12 cm x 4 cm), 405 pages, 55 engraved portraits and illustrations with a frontispiece of King William III. Collation: A8, B-U8, X-Z8, Aa-Cc8, Dd4, (Dd3 verso and Dd4 verso advertisements). Front cover probably original paneled calf, back cover replaced with gold-ruled brown calf. Re-backed in darker brown calf, with a recent gilt label.

Portraits of:

William III;

Elizabeth I;

Edward VI;

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex;

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State

Charles Howard, Earle of Nottingham;

Sir William Cecil, Kn.Baron of Burghley;

Henri IV of France;

Mary, Queen of Scots;

Tomb of Elizabeth I;

James I of England;

Henry, Prince of Wales;

Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia;

Sir Walter Raleigh;

King Frederick of Bohemia;

Archb. Canterbury, George Abbat;

Thomas Wentworth, Earle Stafford;

John Pym, Esquire Burgis of Tavistock;

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (Hollar, P. 1454);

Robert Devereux Earle of Essex;

Marquis of Montross;

Charles I (Hollar, P.1433);

Queen Henrietta Maria (Hollar, P.462);

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham;

Robert Car, Earle of Somerset;

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector;

Edward Lord Montague, Baron of Eimbolton, Viscount Mandevile, Earle of Manchester, signed W Hollar fecit 1644 (Hollar, P. 1309);

Sir Thomas Fairfax (Hollar, P.1402);

Cardinal Marazin;

Sir Samuel Morland (Hollar, 1531);

Mareschal Turenne;

Don Lewis de Harro, P.S. excud.;

Louis XIV (Fred. Bouttats, sculp.);

George Monck, Duke of Albemarle;

Charles II;

Edward Hide, Earle of Clarendon;

Prince George of Denmark;

Col. Algernon Sidney beheaded Dec 7, 1683;

Charles II, R. White, sculp.;

Jacobus II, D.G. Angliae, Scot., Fran. Et Hiber: Rex;

Queen Christina of Sweden;

Pope Innocent XI;

James, Duke of Monmouth;

Roger, Earl of Castlemaine;

Henry, Bishop of London (Frederick van den Hove, sculp.);

The Seven Bishops Sent to the Tower (double); (fold wear)

Prince William Henry of Orange;

François Henri de Montmorency, Duc de Piney-Luxembourg;

Robert Cecil, Earle of Salsbury, H. Stock, sculp.

Dr. James Welwood enjoyed reputations both as a physician and as an historian. Of these Memoires, the author of the entry in Biblioteca Britannica notes it is “an excellent work, betraying, however, much party spirit.” This is a remarkable history of Britain and the turbulent period ending with the Restoration. Extra-illustrated for Thomas Herbert, 8^th Earl of Pembroke (1656 – 1733), this copy remained in the Pembroke library until its public sale by Sotheby’s on March 15 – 17, 1920. This copy appears as Lot 201. The first public sale of the Pembroke library was on June 23, 1914. Since the sale in 1920, this copy travelled first to Scotland, then to the United States, where it was in a private collection. Biblioteca Britannica, Vol. II, Authors; Wing, STC, Second edition, W1307; Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings of Wencelaus Hollar.