The picture of a favourite: or, secret memoirs of Robert Dudley, ... Prime Minister and favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and Stadtholder of Holland. ... Written during his life, and now publish'd from an old manuscript: with a preface by James Drake, ...
London : printed for Samuel Briscoe; and sold by Tho. Bickerton,
1721.
First published in 1584 as "The copie of a leter, wryten by a master of arte of Cambrige' and republished in 1641 as 'Leycester's common-wealth'; this edition is a reissue of 'Secret memoirs of Robert Dudley' first published in 1706, and reissued in that year as 'The second edition corrected', and subsequently reissued in 1708 as 'The perfect picture of a favorite: .. The third edition, corrected'.
Pp.211-218 misnumbered 111-118.
The titlepage is a cancel and is printed in red and black.
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