BOUND COPY IN MARBLED CARD – NEW ENDPAPERS NEAT HAND-WRITTEN TITLE TO FRONT BOARD. THE FIRST LETTER THAT SPRAT WROTE TO THE EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX. 20 PAGES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE LATE ECCLESIASTIAL COMMISSION. In 1669 Sprat became canon of Westminster Abbey and in 1670 rector of Uffington Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676 curate and lecturer at St. Margaret’s Westminster in 1679 canon of Windsor in 1681 dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II’s ecclesiastical commission and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren’s restoration of the abbey.
IN AN ATTRACTIVE MODERN BINDING OF HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS GILT TITLE TO FRONT BOARD. 60 PAGES WITH SOME ROUGH PAGE EDGES AND LAST PAGE GRUBBY OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. NO DATE BUT MID EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1741). PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. A LETTER OF COMPLAINT FROM HERVEY TO SIR THOMAS HANMER (1677-1746) WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A CORRESPONDENCE OF 60 PAGES REBOUND IN MODERN GREY CARD. NOT DATED BUT 1741. A LETTER OF COMPLAINT FROM HERVEY TO SIR THOMAS HANMER (1677-1746) WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. VERY CLEAN NEW END PAPERS. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND SOLD ON LUDGATE HILL.
‘ON THE ATTACKS MADE UPON HIM AND HIS PENSION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS BY THE DUKE OF BEDFORD AND THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE EARLY IN THE PRESENT SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT- 1796’. BOUND IN BLIND STAMPED CLOTH 50 PAGES PAPER LABEL TO THE FRONT BOARD WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE OF 1s 6d. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT A VERY GOOD COPY.
NO DATE BUT MID EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A 57 PAGE PAMPHLET BOUND IN MODERN STIFF PAPER. A RESPONSE TO BISHOP WILLIAM WARBURTON’S DIVINE LEGATION OF 1738. A VERY GOOD COPY.
TWO PAMPHLETS VERY NICELY CASED TOGETHER IN MODERN BLUE BOARD QUARTER CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS. VERY GOOD. ‘A LETTER TO DR. CODEX ON THE SUBJECT…’ 4TH EDITION 40pp. ‘A PROPER REPLY TO THE AUTHOR……’ 1734 FIRST EDITION 32pp. DR. CODEX WAS EDMUND GIBSON BISHOP OF LONDON.
FIRST EDITION VERY ATTRACTIVELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD NEW ENDPAPERS 69 PAGES. AN ANONYMOUS ATTACK OF THE CHURCH OF THE TIME BY ‘SULPICIUS’ WITH A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER TO THE REV. CANON HOCKIN DATED 1890 SAYING THE AUTHOR OF THE LETTER CANNOT FIND THE NAME OF ‘SULPICIUS’. VERY SCARCE.
SMALL OCTAVO pp vii 54. NICELY REBOUND IN STIFF MARBLED CARD NEW ENDPAPERS. A VERY NICE COPY. GIVES DETAIL OF THE DISPUTE ON THE ELECTION OF THE WARDEN OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INVOLVING DR. LOWTH THE FELLOWS OF NEW COLLEGE DR. PURNELL AND MR. GOLDING.
IN WHICH THE INEQUALITIES IN CONSTRUCTING AND THE FALSE CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM DR. HALLEY’S BRESLAU TABLE ARE FULLY PROVED. ORIGINAL PRINT pp46-70. VERY GOOD. DISBOUND (PAGES ONLY).
FINE MODERN BINDING HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS AND PRELIMINARIES RAISED BANDS GILT TITLE ON RED SPINE LABEL. THE BOOK CONTAINS 2 PAMPHLETS: 1. A LETTER TO THE REVEREND MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE BY BENTLEY 24 PAGES; 2. SOME FARTHER REMARKS PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH UPON THE PROPOSALS LATELY PUBLISHED FOR A NEW EDITION OF A GREEK AND LATIN TESTAMENT BY RICHARD BENTLEY (1721) BY CONYERS MIDDLETON PREFACE (6 pp.) 74 pp.
