Book Details
| Author: | Burnet, Gilbert: |
| Title: | The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. |
| Published: | London: J. Walthoe and B. Tooke; J. Nicholson; D. Midwinter and B. Cowse, 1715. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 18 - Religious |
| Description: | Folio 8.25 x 12.75 inches. Three volumes. Volume I - The First Part - Of the Progress Made in it During the Reign of K. Henry the VIII th. By Gilbert Burnet, D.D. Now Lord Bishop of Sarum. The Fourth edition, With Additions, Alterations, and Amendments; Communicated to the Author by Several Hands. 338 pp + 4 pp (A Table of the Records and Papers). Half-title, Frontispiece, Title, Dedication to the King, Contents page, The Preface, Book I - A Summary View of King Henry the Eight's Reign, till the Process of his Divorce was Begun, in which the State of England, Chiefly as it Related to Religion, is Opened. Book II - Of the Process of the Divorce Between King Henry and Queen Katherine, and of what passed from the Nineteenth to the Twenty Fifth Year of his Reign, in Which he was declared Supreme Head of the Church of England. Book III - Of the Other Transactions about Religion and Reformation; during the rest of the Reign of King Henry the Eight. With 7 engraved plates after Holbein by R. White. Volume II - The Second Part of The History of the Reformation - Of the Progress made in it till the Settlement of it in the Beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign. Half- title, Frontispiece, Title page, The Preface, Book I - Of the Life and Reign of King Edward the Sixth, Book II - Of the Life and Reign of Queen Mary, Book III - Of the Settlement of the Reformation in the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, Collection of Records. 382 pp + 4 pp (A Table of Records and Papers). With 10 engraved plates by R. White. Volume III - The Third Part - Being a Supplement to the Two Volumes Formerly Published. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. London: J. Churchill, 1715. xiv (Preface), xxii (Introduction), 426 pp, x (A Table of the records and Papers). With 5 engraved plates by G. Vertue. Red and Black titles. All volumes with occasional unobtrusive annotations in margins and underlining of text in blue pen. Vol I - Text mostly clean except for light damp staining at bottom of text at gutter. Binding sound and tight. Vol II - Some light damp staining on prelims and bottom of pages of text but mostly clean. Front hinge cracked. Vol III - Light damp stain on prelims and bottom of pages of text, otherwise clean. Front board seperating from ffep and spine. Notes written neatly in blue pen on rear free ep of all three volumes. All vols - Blue marbled eps. Marbled edges. Internal binding of all three vols sound and tight. Bound in half tan leather with marbled hard paper boards. Four raised bands decorated with gilt and gilt lettering on spine labels. Leather corners scuffed and rubbed. Vol I - piece of about 3 inches missing from top of spine and about 1 inch missing from bottom. Vol II - Edges of spine split along most of length. Vol III - Backstrip detached. Leather scuffed on all three vols. Overall condition Good. Internally VG. Well worth having bindings repaired. |
| Book Number: | #4264 |
| Price: | € 420.00 |
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