Author: BOOKS-ABOUT-BOOKS. PRINTERS - TWO CONDEMNED TO GALLEYS, TWO HANGED, & TWO MORE PUT ON THE RACK & THEN HANGED.
Title: The Present State of Europe: or, the Historical and Political Monthly Mercury, giving an account of all the Publick and Private occurrences, Civil, Ecclesiastical and Military, that are most considerable in every Court: ...
Description: London: Printed for Henry Rhodes at the Star, the corner of Bride-lane, Fleetstreet, and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry, 1694. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. Pp. [ii], 389-425, [ix]. Disbound. December 1694 issue. Contains interesting item on how some Booksellers and Printers were seized at Paris, by reason of certain libels they had sold. Later two of them were condemned to the galleys, two were hanged and the last two put on the rack before they were hanged (p. 405). Good.

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