TWO VOLUMES IN RED CLOTH GILT TITLE ON SPINE GILT COAT OF ARMS FRONT BOARDS. SLIGHT FOXING. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR WILLIAM WELLER PEPYS BART. MASTER IN CHANCERY 1758-1825 WITH MRS CHAPONE MRS HARTLEY MRS MONTAGU HANNAH MORE WILLIAM FRANKS SIR JAMES MACDONALDMAJOR RENNELL SIR NATHANIEL WRAXALL AND OTHERS
Author:
GAUSSEN C.C.
Place, Publisher, Date:
JOHN LANE. THE BODLEY HEAD. LONDON. MDCCCCIV. 1904
FIRST EDITION. 45 pp VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD NEW ENDPAPERS. HODY (1659-1707) WAS A PROFESSOR OF GREEK AT OXFORD AND THEOLOGIAN. THE LETTER CONCERNS HENRY DODWELL (1641-1711) WITH WHOM HODY WAS INVOLVED IN A CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE NON-JURING BISHOPS. VERY SCARCE.
TWO LETTERS – THE FIRST DATED 1688 20 PAGES. THE SECOND DATED 1689 64 PAGES. BOUND IN MODERN BLACK CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS AND GILT TITLE TO THE SPINE. VERY GOOD INTERIOR CLEAN AND BRIGHT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SOMERSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE THE LATE ECCLESIASTICAL 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.
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.
