TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE].

Copye. vande Namen der Coninghen, ende andere Potentaten ende Gesanten van weghen de . Heeren de Staten Generael versocht om mede te staen over de Vredehandelinge . Mitsgaders . Ghesanten . ende oock . de Ghecommitteerde, . vanden Coninck van Spaengien, . Noch achter aen ghevoecht de Artijckelen van weder zyden in schrift gestelt.[The Hague?], [Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw?], 1608. Small 4to. A political pamphlet with lists of nearly everyone (from numerous countries) involved in the peace negotations with Spain and a list of the twenty proposed articles. With a small decoration made up of arabesque fleurons on the title-page. Nearly untrimmed, without binding or wrapper.

      (4) pp. Asher 26, 27 or 28/12; Kuttel 1518; Tiele 720; STCN (6 copies); cf. Simoni C-175 (apparently another ed.); OCLC WorldCat (4 copies, ed(s). not specified). A small pamphlet listing about three dozen noblemen participating in the peace negotiations between the Netherlands and Spain, leading to the Twelve Years' Truce in 1609. In addition to the Low Countries and Spain, participants represent France, Great Britain, Denmark, and a half dozen German states. This is apparently the first edition to include a list of the proposed articles, here twenty in number and later twenty-eight.The pamphlet appeared in some form with all three editions of the Nederlandtsche Bye-Korf in the period April to August 1608. Knuttel indicates that the edition most often found there (indeed the most common edition overall) is Knuttel 1516, without the list of articles. If the present edition appeared before the first edition Bye-Korf it must have been printed very soon after the date 14 March (1608) mentioned in article 4.A very good copy and nearly untrimmed, with the deckle at the foot and the printer's point holes near the head. There are traces of old folds, and sewing holes in the fold, but no indication that it was ever bound. A nice record of participants in the negotiations, with a preliminary list of the articles of peace.