The Journals of All Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

The Volume is in Very Good Condition re-backed, retaining the blind ruled calf boards, with the newer spine divided into seven compartments by six raised bands, with a red morocco letter-piece in the second compartment from the top, with the board edges gilt tooled. Externally the board and spine are lightly scuffed in general, with the boards repaired by an expert hand. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, with some of the later leaves softened, and with some marginal staining otherwise. The engraving of Elizabeth has been cut and mounted without the loss of any image.

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Of Simonds d’Ewes

Simonds d’Ewes is perhaps best known for his work as an antiquarian, and particularly for his transcriptions of important historical documents, originals of which do not survive today, and the Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Although d’Ewes was ambitious in this field, he lacked the ability to generalise or construct effectively, and died without publishing any major work, except The Primitive Practice for Preserving Truth and a few speeches. The Journals was published posthumously in 1682 by his nephew, the lawyer and antiquary Paul Bowes.