Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq.
Subtitle: lieutenant general of the horse, commander in chief of the forces in Ireland, one of the council of state, and a member of the Parliament which began on November 3, 1640 : in two volumes.
Contributors: Ludlow, Edmund, 1617?-1692.; Legh Keck, George Anthony, 1774-1860, former owner.; Copley, Godfrey, Sir, d. 1709, former owner.
Publisher: Printed at Vivay ...
Published: 1698
Place of publication: Switzerland
Language: eng
Subjects: Ludlow, Edmund, -- 1617?-1692; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
Notes: Vol. 1-2 paged continuously ([2], viii, 878 p.); v. 2 has half-title only; v. 3 ([8], 402, [58] p., with "Errata" on p.[57].

Title of v. 3: Memoirs of Lieutenant General Ludlow ... With a collection of original papers, serving to confirm and illustrate many important passages of this and the preceding volumes. To which is added, A table to the whole work.

"The editor of the first edition took the liberty of suppressing all passages which reflected on the Earl of Shaftesbury. Copies of these passages were found among Locke's papers, and are printed in Christie's Life of Shaftesbury (vol. I, p. lvi-lxii)" -- DNB.

Includes indexes (cf. v. 3).

Fictitious imprint; printed secretly in London so as not to be construed as pro-Commonwealth.--Cf. Feehan 18 Sept. 1970.

Wing L3460-L3462;

Arber's Term cat. III 77.

Armorial bookplate of George Anthony Keck.

BURNS has also a 2nd copy of vols. 1 and 3, with armorial bookplate: Sir Godfrey Copley, Bart.; also with signature on front free endpaper (v. 1): Godfrey Copley.