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John Selden; Nathaniel Bacon : An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England from the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England

D. Browne and A. Millar, London, c. 1760.

Contemporary full calf, upper and lower boards with gilt floral centerpiece within two thin gilt lines, rebacked expertly preserving the original spine in six compartments of raised bands and a gilt diamond pattern, gilt morocco label on two, gilt text on six, gilt tooling along board edges, endpapers marbled., Occasional faint foxing, otherwise an excellent copy., Large 4to, P. title, blank, advertisement (2), half title, blank, advertisement iii-iv, contents v-vi, preface vii-viii, index xiii-xix, blank, 1-203; half-title, blank, preface iii-xii, 1-178, contents (2), index (5)., Volume : Two volumes in one.

Nathaniel Bacon was the half brother of Sir Francis Bacon and the son of Nicholas Bacon. He was a member of the Suffolk committee for the defence against the Royalists, an M.P. for Cambridge University and Master of requests during Richard Cromwell's protectorate. The book, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, is a sort of constitutional history of England, showing much knowledge of the development of its institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, and pervaded by a strong spirit of hostility to the claims of the royal prerogative and hierarchical pretensions. , Graesse I:247.

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