A Collection of eighteen rare and curious historical tracts and pamphlets
Publisher: Priv. print. [E. & G. Goldsmid]
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Other titles: Historical reprints.; Ten scarce books in English literature. (Anals for contents of Historical reprints)
Notes: Issued in parts as Historical reprints I-XVIII. The collective t.-p. as above and table of contents were issued only to subscribers for the complete set.

"Of each of the eighteen pamphlets in this collection, only fifty large paper and two hundred small paper copies were printed." Nos. I, IV, V, VII, IX, XI, XIII-XV, XVII were also issued as: Ten scarce books in English literature.
Table of contents: title: I. [Addison, Joseph] The political creed of a Tory-malecontent. 1745.; title: II. Duke Hamiltons conditions for surrendring himself. 1648.; title: III. Great Britain. Parliament. 1642. A remonstrance ... 26. of May. 1642.; title: IV. Fairfax, Sir F.F., 2d baron. A letter from ... Lord Fairfax to ... Robert earle of Essex. 1643.; title: V. L'Estrange, Sir Roger. No blinde guides. 1660.; title: VI. The affairs of Scotland in 1689.; title: VII. [C., H.] News from Dublin in Ireland. 1647.; title: VIII. [Sprat, Thomas] bp. of Rochester. The Rye House plot. 1684.; title: IX. The impostor painted in his own colours. [1715?]; title: X. The reign of William the Conqueror.; title: XI. The genealogy of the kings of Britain.; title: XII. Four original documents relating to the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves.; title: XIII. Great Britain. Sovereigns, etc., 1509-1547 (Henry VIII) Instructions of Henry VIII. for the general visitation of the monasteries and nunneries.; title: XIV. Four curious documents.; title: XV. Two important state papers.; title: (cont); title: XVI. The Earl of Hertford's expedition against Scotland.; title: XVII. Exact and certaine newes from the siege at Yorke. 1644.; title: XVIII. [Prestongrange, W.G.] lord, supposed author. An answer to the second manifesto of the Pretender's eldest son. 1746.