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Memoirs … with some of his posthumous Writings, from Manuscripts in his own Hand, never before printed.

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First edition, a large paper copy, imposed as a folio rather than a quarto (and fully 11 cm taller than usual).

A brief biography of Naunton, author of Fragmenta Regalia, by James Caulfield, Memoirs includes several letters by Naunton, transcriptions of epitaphs and church monuments, descriptions of his coat of arms, and verses by Naunton in Latin and English on the Earls of Essex and Salisbury, and his sister Anne.

We can trace only one other large paper copy, at the British Library.

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