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DEVEREUX, Robert, Third Earl of Essex (1791-1646). A collection of 23 tracts in one volume, all relating to his achievments as a parliamentary general.including: CRAGG, John, gentleman. A Prophecy concerning the Earl of Essex . [London:] John Crag, 1641. 4° (171 x 137mm). 4ll., in verse. Woodcut title vignette, woodcut bust. FIRST EDITION. Wing C-6790C locates 5 copies. DEVEREUX, Robert, Earl of Essex. The Resolution of his excellence the Earle of Essex . [London:] J. Wels, 1642. 4° (180 x 131mm). 4ll. ONLY EDITION. Wing D-3329 LOCATES ONLY ONE COPY (Yale). DEVEREUX, Robert, Earl of Essex. Several propositions prounded, to the Cavaleees [sic] neere Darbyshire, September the 21. 1642. [London:] I. White, 23 September 1642. 4° (172 x 122mm). 4ll. UNRECORDED EDITION. Wing D-3331 records 2 copies (Thomason and Folger) of an edition dated 21 September, and no other edition. FORTH, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of (1573?-1651). The copy of his Excellency the Earl of Forth's letter to the Earl of Essex. Bristol: Robert Barker and John Bill 1643. 4° (180 x 125mm). 4ll. UNRECORDED EDITION. No copy of this Bristol edition is recorded in Wing, although Oxford and London editions are known. Cf. Wing F-1614-5. Good and true newes from Redding. London: J.G., 1643. 4° (184 x 138mm). 4ll. ONLY EDITION. Wing G-1037. The second intelligence from his Excellency his quarters before Reading. [London:] William Brown 27 April 1643. 4° (189 x 140mm). 4ll. FIRST EDITION. Wing S-2280A RECORDS 2 COPIES ONLY (Fairfax and Harvard). HARVEY, Edmund (fl. 1642-1661, regicide). A letter from Colonell Harvie, to his Excellency Robert Earle of Essex. London: John Wright 11 November 1643. 4° (192 x 140mm). 4ll. ONLY EDITION. Wing H-1051 locates four copies only. Descriptio rerum gestarum in expeditione, quam suscepit illustrissimus heros, Robertus Comes Essexiae. London: E.G., 1643. 4° (180 x 120mm). 14ll. (Cropped at fore-margins.) ONLY EDITION. Wing D-1138. DEVEREUX, Robert, Earl of Essex. A paper delivered into the Lords House at the offering up of his commission. London: Thomas Hewer, 1645. 4° (178 x 130mm). 4ll. ONLY EDITION. Wing E-3325; together with 14 similar pamphlets in the same volume, all relating to the Earl of Essex. Modern calf by Leighton, gilt-lettered spine.