8vo. [4], 126pp, [2]. With half-title and terminal advertisement leaf. Without portrait frontispiece. Recent navy buckram, lettered in gilt. Slightest of marking to extremities, spine sunned. Recent endpapers, occasional light spots of soiling, overall internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of historian John Oldmixon's (1672/3-1742) life of John Somers, Baron Somers (1651-1716), jurist and Whig politician who, during an often turbulent career, served as Lord High Chancellor under William III, and as a primary architect of the union of 1707 between England and Scotland.