Memoirs of the Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, etc. (2 Volume set)

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. 1822 Fourth Edition, complete in 2 volumes. GOOD+. Internally near fine; leather bindings worn, spine leather perished. Pages, all edgres marbled, are clean and complete; no markings and very little foxing (primarily to title pages and plates. Brown calf-leather covered boards and grey endpapers are intact. Hinges tender, book blocks solid. Complete with frontispiece portrait engravings to each volume (Mrs. Hutchinson and Colonel Hutchinson). Vol. 1 also contains large fold-out genealogical table of the Hutchinson and Apsley families and a fold-out facsimile of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson's handwriting. Vol. 2 contains a fold-out "Plan of Nottingham Castle in 1617" and an engraving of a view of Nottingham Castle and town. John Hutchinson was an English politician, an MP from 1648-1653 and in 1660. He was one of the Puritan leaders, and fought in the parliamentary army in the English Civil War. He was a signer of the death warrant of King Charles 1. His wife Lucy was a biographer and a Latin scholar; and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). Her "Summary Review of Public Affairs" and "fragment" of her autobiography are included in these volumes. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2". Vol. 1-xxvi + 348 pages. Vol. 2- [vi] + 384 pages . Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Not Issued.