The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, Knt. Commissioner of the Customs, and afterwards of the Treasury to his Majesty King Charles the Second. And of the Honourable and Reverend Dr. John North, Master of Trinity College in Cambridge, and Greek Professor, Prebend of Westminster, and sometime Clerk of the Closet to the same King Charles the Second.

Roger North

London : printed for John Whiston, at Mr. Boyle's Head in Fleet-Street, MDCCXLII. [1742]

Contemporary leather boards, rebacked with modern spine. Frontispiece portrait. vi, 240, 239-288, [8] pages (index).  Armorial book plate of Lord Auckland.  Early signature on fep: " Ex-Libris Jacobi Chetham."  "The Lives of the Norths must always remain an English classic and a primary source for the period with which it deals." (DNB). An extensive early biography, rivaling Boswell's. Subjects:     North, John, -- 1645-1683.    North, Dudley, -- Sir, -- 1641-1691.