Duels - Selden, The Duello, 1610; Bacon, The charge of Sir Francis Bacon, 1614, 2 vol. in one

DUELS

Two works in one volume, comprising:

i. Bacon, Sir Francis. The charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching duells, vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright. [London]: printed for Robert Wilson, 1614, without first blank leaf, last blank with seventeenth-century manuscript notes "Of Spaine", [ESTC S121055; Gibson 102], bound after:

ii. [Selden, John] The duello or single combat. London: printed by G.E. for I. Helme, 1610, [ESTC S117105; STC 22171], title soiled, tear in C1 repaired

2 works in one volume, FIRST EDITIONS, small 4to (170 x 126mm.), nineteenth-century blue half morocco

The treatise on fencing by Selden was one of several published in the early seventeenth century. Sir Francis Bacon was appointed attorney-general in 1613 and one of his tasks was to abolish duelling; he soon prosecuted two men in the Star Chamber in order to discourage the practice, publishing this work in order to publicise the trial.