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The Court Secret:

The Court Secret: A Novel. Part I [-II],

Publication details: Printed by R.E. for R. Baldwin [...]1689,

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Late seventeenth-century novel - with contemporary female ownership - in which a religiously turbulent (and largely fictitious) Ottoman Empire provides a proxy for England during the Glorious Revolution. A key to decipher the characters appears in part. 2 (Selim the second is James II, etc.). Hyperbolically anti-Catholic, it ends by foreshadowing a third volume (apparently never printed) to cover 'the prodigious Birth and Life, Tyrannical Government, and miserable Fall of the Christian Turk, Lewis the Fourteenth'.

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FIRST EDITIONS, two parts in one, each with its own title and imprint, preliminary blank to vol. 1 (on a stub) and terminal blank to vol. 2; vol. I closely trimmed at foot, affecting the odd signature or catchword, title and prelims a little frayed, the odd marginal tear or printing flaw with the loss of a letter here and there, but no loss of sense, rather browned, pp. [12], 276; [12], 233 [i.e., 237], [3], 12mo, recent quarter brown leather and marbled boards; contemporary annotations to initial blank, in the same hand as ink ownership inscription to foot of final page of text in vol. 2: 'I Mary Fisher', good

Bibliography: (ESTC R170503; R209906)

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