[Girard (Guillaume)] & Cotton (Charles, translator), The His...

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[Girard (Guillaume)] & Cotton (Charles, translator), The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [i.e. d'Épernon], The Great Favourite of France, [...] the History of France [...] 1598 [...] [to] 1642, first English edition, London: Printed by E. Cotes, and A. Clark, for Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ludgate-street, at the West End of St. Pauls, 1670, black-ruled title printed in red and black, and with some Gothic black letter, pp: [xx], 190, [ii], 417-651, [i], illustrated with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, later 20th century blue quarter-morocco gilt over boards, red-stained edges, folio (34.5cm x 23.5cm), [Wing G788], [1]

Provenance: The Inner Temple Library, London, their various stamps over the centuries to verso of each engraving (not blemishing the image or its margin), title-page, A2 recto, pages 1, 223, 650, 651, and blank verso of final leaf.