Sir Walter Raleigh's Speech from the Scaffold. A Translation of the 1619 Dutch Edition, and Comparison with English Texts.
Minneapolis. Associates of the James Ford Bell Library. 1995. Sm.4to. 25 x 18 cm, number 91 of a limited dition of 600 copies, (ii), 79p., illustrated, facsimile, index, two-tone blue cloth, fine. (Tr). Item #40456
On October 29, 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was executed on a scaffold in the yard outside London's Gatehouse Prison. His famous scaffold speech is presented here in the original first edition in Dutch. The first English edition was published in Englsi in 1648.
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