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8vo, 166 x 97 mms., pp. [xvi], 1126, printer's ornament on title-page, contemporary calf, gilt title on spine, remnants of gilt border on covess; joints and corners worn, nicks and scratches to binding, but a respectable copy with the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Guilford, Wroxton Abby on the front paste-down end-papers. Antonio Pérez del Hierro (1540 - 1611) was a Spanish statesman and secretary of king Philip II of Spain and is notorious for his role in the murder of Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Don Juan of Austria. is most remembered for his role in the murder of Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Don Juan of Austria. After many escapades, including a trial and torture, he made his way to France and England, and, as Wikipedia notes, "He spent the rest of his life trying to make a living off the sale of the secrets he knew, but he failed to make an impression on Queen Elizabeth I and her chief minister William Cecil. In 1593, he arrived in England as a guest of Anthony Bacon and he was admired by the Essex circle for his knowledge of Tacitism. It was the printer Richard Field who printed Perez' Pedacos de Historia o Relaciones. He was a guest of Francis Bacon's on the famous Night of Errors at Gray's Inn when the throng of disorderly people nearly prevented a performance of A Comedy of Errors. t has been claimed that Pérez was mocked in Love's Labour's Lost in the persona of the preposterous Spaniard Don Armado." Antonio Pérez.Palau 219 025; cf. Sánchez Alonso 2659; cf. Salvá 2378 & 2379. Gallardo III 1156 - 1160. Maggs: Spanish Books 738. Seller Inventory # 9937
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