Author(s): Pierre De Moulin (attributed to)

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Tragicum Theatrum Actorum, Actorum Tragicorum Londini Publice celebratorum, Quibus.

Pp. 320. 8 portrait plates (including frontispiece) & folding plate. Original calf, neatly recased, aeg. Gilt decorations on endpapers. Title page; Tragicum Theatrum Actorum, Actorum Tragicorum Londini Publice celebratorum, Quibus. Hiberniae proregi, Episcopo Cantuarientsi, ac randem regi ipsi, aliisque vita adempta, & ad Angicanam Metamorphosin via est aperta  This is a collection of Latin documents published by the royalist Pierre du Moulin (1601-1684). He was a French-English Anglican exiled in Amsterdam, the work providing a history of the civil war, particularly outlining dramatic events in London such as the execution of Charles I in 1649. The folding plate shows the execution at Whitehall of Charles I. A lovely complete copy of this early work.