Perrinchief,Richard (signs the Preface but is not named on the title)
Title
SICILIAN TYRANT: or the life of Agathocles
PlacePub
London
Publisher
Printed J.Grover for Royston
Date
1676
Illustrations
Copperplate portrait + large copperplate on TP of a burning ship + folding plate of a tyrant crowned by Perfidia & Crudelitas
Description
Octavo early 19th century fine full calf binding, 5 raised bands, red spine label, spine extra gilt to bands and compartments, covers gilt ruled gilt rev. & dent. (tips rubbed/tiny ink spot to spine) All Edges Gilt marbled endpapers Frontis. +TP +(xiv) +folding plate +278pp A few marginal tears/tiny corner losses with a small burn hole to E1-5 repaired, else a lovely clean copy. *A thinly veiled attack on Oliver Cromwell in which he is equated with the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles (362-289 B.C) who ruined Sicily by his wars with Carthage. The Preface signed by Perrinchief, an ardent royalist, makes the parallel clear "The miseries which Tyrants usually bring upon that unhappy people, who, by impatience of a Just Government, and by their seditious attempt upon their Lawful Prince, have exposed themselves to the Cheats, and are at last inslaved by the Power of such Ambitious Persons, cease not with their lives but are extented to the following Age .." (WING P1607).
Booknumber
V66690
Price
Price: GBP 180.00 or USD 266.00
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