Tag: 1640s

A–C, Located

Cupids Messenger, or, A Trusty Friend Stored with Sundry Sorts of Serious, Witty, Pleasant, Amorous, and Delightful Letters (1646)

Cupids messenger, or, A trusty friend stored with sundry sorts of serious, witty, pleasant, amorous, and delightful letters : what Cupid blushes to discover, thus to write he learnes the lover (London : Printed by Miles Flesher, 1646)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 255. ESTC R32397.

British Library C.57.b.14. Located by Paul Morgan.

D–F, Unlocated

Earl of Strafford – The Truest Relation of the Earle of Straffords Speech on the Scaffold on Tower-hill, before He Was Beheaded (1641)

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. The truest relation of the Earle of Straffords speech on the scaffold on Tower-hill, before he was beheaded, May 12. 1641. Together with his deportment before and at the end of his execution (London : Printed for John Marriot, 1641)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 244. ESTC R225911.

Unlocated. Formerly on deposit with the Bodleian Library as Tracts vol. 13(15). Fairfax deposit was sold by Sotheby’s in 1992 and, along with it, this book.

A–C, Unlocated

Charles I – His Majesties Declaration to All His Loving Subjects, Occasioned by a False and Scandalous Imputation (1642)

Charles I. His Majesties declaration to all His loving subjects, occasioned by a false and scandalous imputation laid upon His Majesty of an intention of raising or leavying war against his Parliament, and of having raised force to that end (1642)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 243. Eleven editions in ESTC.

Unlocated.