174 pp. Several engravings in text. Lacking title page, inserts at pp. 70 and 110, pp. 105/106, and pp. 123 (blank)/124 (all supplied in photocopy, laid in). (Small 4to) 7x5¾, full gilt ruled calf. First Edition.

Mildmay Fane was born in Kent and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matriculated 1618). He became MP for Peterborough in 1620 and for Kent in 1625. He succeeded his father as Earl of Westmorland and Lord le Despenser on 23 March 1628/29. A friend of Robert Herrick, he supported the Royalist party at the outbreak of the English Civil War, but, following a brief period of imprisonment by Parliament, he retired to his estate at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.