CIVIL WAR. RYVES, BRUNO.: Mercurius Rusticus: or, The Countries Complaint of the Barbarous Outrages Committed by the Sectaries of this late flourishing Kingdom. Together with A brief Chronologie of the Battels, Sieges, Conflicts...to the 25 of March 1646. London, R Royston, 1685. 4 parts in one volume [as issued], small 8vo, pp [16], 205, [10], 116-216, [82], with separate titles to each part, additional engraved title page to first part, bound in contemporary calf, spine leather chipped away in places, old light library blindstamp to the title page, but a good sound copy requiring a little restoration,
FIRST EDITION THUS, a four part collection based upon earlier published material from the 1640's, but here first issued together in the present form, previous collected editions being of a varied nature. Mercurius Rusticus and Querela Cantabrigiensis are both reprinted from Oxford Newsletters, and supposed to be by Bruno Ryves, though John Barwick is also suggested author of the second work. An important summary of the Royalist complaints in the Civil War. SOLD!
FIRST EDITION THUS, a four part collection based upon earlier published material from the 1640's, but here first issued together in the present form, previous collected editions being of a varied nature. Mercurius Rusticus and Querela Cantabrigiensis are both reprinted from Oxford Newsletters, and supposed to be by Bruno Ryves, though John Barwick is also suggested author of the second work. An important summary of the Royalist complaints in the Civil War. SOLD!
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