The life of Sir Walter Ralegh from his birth to his death on the scaffold
Subtitle: containing ...
By: the whole compiled from the most approved authorities and curious manuscripts
Contributors: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: Printed for the booksellers in town and country
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
Other titles: Life of Ralegh
Notes: Signatures: A-4Cp4s.

"The trial of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt. for high treason at Winton": p. [528]-576.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Raleigh is unsigned.

"Apparently an unauthorized reprint, with slight changes, of Oldys' 'Life of Ralegh' which first appeared prefixed to the 1736 edition of Raleigh's "History of the world'."--cf. NYPL catalog.

Published anonymously. According to ESTC, the author is William Oldys.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams Library copy contains faded signature on first leaf: "Mary Richman Her Book [?] May the 25th 1744."

ESTC, T139693

NYPL. Rare Books, v. 11, p. 5

Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, 679

Also available on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1815, no. 02).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p) I. An account of his family, its antiquity, dignity, power and wealth; title: II. His gradual rife, and the steps he tooks in his youth to that fame and reputation whcih he enjoyed in his riper years; title: III. His gallant actions in France in behalf of the Hugenots, and in Ireland against the rebels; title: IV. His several naval expeditions to America and other parts; with his discovery of Virginia; title: V. The share he had in the glorious and ever memorable victory which the English fleet obtained over the Spanish Armada in the year 1588; title: VI. A relation of a most desperate engagement between Sir Richard Greenvil in the revenge against the whole Spanish fleeet; title: VII. The trial at large of Sir Walter Ralegh, his condemnation, long imprisonment in the Tower, and execution.