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Evelyn (John). The State of France as it stood in the IXth yeer of this present Monarch Lewis XIIII. Written to a Friend, 1st edition, London: by T. M. for G. Bedell & T. Collins, 1652, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, initial and final blanks (A1 and G12) discarded, worming to lower outer corners, touching catch-words in quire A, spreading to lower inner corners in quires C and D and touching a few letters, contemporary reddish-brown sheep, rubbed, loss to foot of spine, front joint cracked at head, 12mo (14.1 x 7.9 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Sir Henry Blount (1602-1682), English traveller and author of A Voyage into the Levant (1636), with his ownership inscription 'Sr Henry Blount' to the head of the title-page, and annotation to front free endpaper verso. Evelyn met Blount in 1659, describing him as the 'famous traveller and water-drinker', a reference to his animadversions on drunkenness. 2) From the estate of John Lawson (1932-2019). ESTC R12269; Keynes 3; Wing E3515. 'The State of France is one of the prettiest of Evelyn's books, and exhibits in some copies a pleasant personal touch on the title-page in the shape of an engraved vignette of the author's monogram entwined with oak and bay leaves ... [I]t is possible that those copies with the engraved vignette were specially printed for the author to give to his friends, but the evidence on this point is very scanty' (Keynes). There was also an issue with Evelyn's monogram with the letterpress of the title-page; Keynes does not assign priority in printing to either.