Civil War and other pamphlets, 4 in one volume, later calf

CIVIL WAR AND OTHER PAMPHLETS

4 works in one volume, comprising:

i. A more full and truer relation of Sir William Waller, his regaining his ammunition from the Kings new forces sent against him from Oxford under the command of Prince Rupert... also a consultation of the peoples report concerning Sir William Wallers death given out by some malignants, as it was delivered unto a worthy member of the House of Commons, on Munday the 17 of Iuly 1643. London: printed by B. Alsop, July 19 [1643], 8pp., engraved additional portrait (cut down and mounted), with a section from a map of eastern France used as a wrapper, [ESTC R233527 (one copy only)]

ii. Newes from Gulick and Cleve. With a preface... collected... by Mercurius Batavo-Britannus. London: for H. Holland and G. Gibbs, 1615, [4], 26pp., [seemingly unrecorded, but cf. ESTC S107971 ("faithfully translated out of Dutch by Charles Demetrius", this copy with different title and pagination)], ?lacking a preliminary leaf (A1)

iii. M., R. A compleat schoole of warre. London: printed for Richard Harper, [1642], 8pp., [ESTC R11696 (5 copies)], cropped with loss (including date on title)

iv. Haslewood, J., editor. Hereafter ensue the trewe encountre or.. batayle lately don betwene. Engla[n]de and: Scotlande. London: printed by J. Smeeton, 1809, 8pp., facsimile reprint of ?1513 edition, black letter, woodcut on first leaf, colophon attached to final leaf

4 works in one volume, 4to, late nineteenth-century blind-stamped calf, text with occasional spotting, soiling, etc., slightly rubbed

The second work is apparently one of the forerunners of the first English newsbook started by Bourne and Archer in London in 1622. As seems to be the case here the earliest newsbooks in England at the time were often simply translations from the earliest news-periodicals of Holland and Germany.

PROVENANCE:

Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1886, the naturalist), bookplate; Thomas Francis Fremantle, bookplate, purchased from Pickering & Chatto, 25 May 1900, £3-10s