SHAFTESBURY (Anthony Ashley Cooper), First Earl. Rawleigh Redivivus; Or the Life & Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Early of Shaftesbury. Humbly Dedicated to the Protesting Lords. By Philanax Misopappas., London, Printed for Thomas Malthus..., 1683.FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 182 x 116 mms., pp. [xvi], 88, 136, [8], engraved portrait of Shaftesbury as frontispiece, contemporary calf; front hinge cracked, spine flaking, but a good copy, the John Evelyn copy, with manuscript press mark, 19th Century bookplate of Sir Frederick Evelyn, and later "JE" monogrammed bookplate. Neither the pseudonym "Philanax Misopappas" nor the initials to the Epistle Dedicatory - S. N. - have been identified, despite the fact that the latter was addressed to the Duke of Monmouth and the other Lords who defended Shaftesbury at the end of his life. The work itself is a eulogy upon the late dead Lord, who had been largely discredited through his association with Monmouth and his plots, and who, though acquitted of high treason, was forced to flee to Holland where he died. It was described by Traill in his English Worthies as a "servile panegyric of some ultra-Protestant Whig," but served as the only source for the life of Shaftesbury for many years. McAlpin, IV, p. 146. This was lot 1061 in the Evelyn sale of March 15/16, 1978. (Book ref. 6536) £ 650.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, John Price Antiquarian Books, are shown in the right-hand column. |
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