Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth In the dress in which she went to St Pauls, to return thanks for the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Engraved by Bond, from the extremely rare print by Crispin de Passe, after a drawing by Isaac Oliver.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH
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IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. & VOL. II. combined
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LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1818.
PRINTED BY RICHARD AND ARTHUR TAYLOR, SHOE-LANE.
In the literature of our country, however copious, the eye of the curious student may still detect important deficiencies.
We possess, for example, many and excellent histories, embracing every period of our domestic annals;—biographies, general and particular, which appear to have placed on record the name of every private individual justly entitled to such commemoration;—and numerous and extensive collections of original letters, state-papers and other historical and antiquarian documents;—whilst our comparative penury is remarkable in royal lives, in court histories, and especially in that class which forms the glory of French literature,—memoir.
To supply in some degree this want, as it affects the person and reign of one of the most illustrious of female and of European sovereigns, is the intention of the work now offered with much diffidence to the public.