Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals by John Bargrave, Canon of Canterbury (1662-1680), Edited by James Craigie Robertson, Canon of Canterbury.With a Catalogue of Dr. Bargrave\'s Museum. Works of The Camden Society, no. 92. Printed for The Camden Society, 1867.John Bargrave (1610 – 1680) was an English author and collector and a canon of Canterbury Cathedral. His sole contribution to literature is a curious account called \"Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals\", originally written in 1660 while Bargrave was in Rome and not originally intended for publication.The work consists of scraps selected from three anonymous contemporary Italian publications (La Giusta Statura de\'Porporati, Il Nipotismo di Roma and Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa; the last two by Gregorio Leti), with considerable additions of his own. The profiles were originally designed to illustrate a collection of portraits of the pope and cardinals published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1657 called The Effigies.Bargrave\'s work was edited by James Craigie Robertson for the Camden Society in 1867, with a memoir of Bargrave and a descriptive catalogue of the curiosities he had acquired in his travels. His cabinet of curiosities, complete with riding boots and a miniature of him and his young travelling tutees, Raymond and Alexander Chapman, by Matteo Bolgnini, survives intact in the Canterbury Cathedral Library.Ex-library copy. In fair condition with clean pages inside. Discolouration and foxing to some pages. Covers show signs of wear. Bookplates on front and back pastedowns.