THE PICTURE OF A FAVOURITE: OR SECRET MEMOIRS OF ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER, PRIME MINISTER AND FAVOURITE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, AND STADTHOLDER OF HOLLAND; Containing An Instructive Account of his Rise and Fall; excessive Power and Wealth; his cruel Oppressions; the exorbitant Grants made to him; his ambitious Aim at the Crown; his Lusts, Hypocrisie, and Irreligion; also his Secret Combination with the Papists and Fanaticks, to Undermine the Church of England, and Exclude the Royal Family. Written during his Life, and now publish'd from an Old Manuscript: with a Preface by James Drake, Fellow of the Royal Society and College of Physicians.
London. Printed for Samuel Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill; and sold by Tho. Bickerton at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, 1721. 1721. Third Edition, Corrected. Leather-bound. Small 8vo. Full old polished calf, crackled at edges and along spine. Title in red and black Rebacked, with original title tab ruled in gilt)..... More