£850
12mo, pp. [xxii], 153, [1]. Half-title discarded. Contemporary sheep, boards bordered with double blind rules. Somewhat toned. Resewn and front joint renewed, a couple more small repairs, old leather marked and worn in places. Monastic library inscriptions to inside front board and verso of title-page, remnants of paper label to spine, ownership inscriptions of Matthew Almod to flyleaf and PG to title-page.
An English translation of a manual for success at court, first published in 1652 and taken from a work which first saw print in French anonymously in 1616. The Walsingham of the title is Sir Francis (c.1532-1590), to whom this work was falsely attributed by its translator Edward Walsingham (d. 1663), a distant relation. It was reprinted in 1694 and 1728, and was sufficiently popular for Pepys to refer in his diary to a trip 'calling for Walsingham's Manuals at my bookseller's to read but not to buy' in 1664. He must have relented later, reading it on a trip to Deptford in 1666 and noting that it was 'a very good book.'
