An Exact Copy of A Remarkable Letter From Admiral Byng to the Right Hon W ---- P ---- Esq.; dated March 12, two Days before his Execution

by Admiral John attrib. Byng

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First edition

London: For J. Reason, opposite Serjeant's Inn, 1757. First Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Disbound, with traces of an old calf spine. 22pp. Clean and strong, stitch bound; internally clean with a little offsetting and light soiling to the first and last leaves otherwise bright and fresh. A very good copy.A printed letter, putatively addressed to William Pitt, from the doomed Admiral

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