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Record Nr.

UNISA996394170103316

Autore

Hooker Richard <1553 or 4-1600.>

Titolo

Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie [[electronic resource] ] : eight bookes by Richard Hooker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Will : Stansby [for Henrie Fetherstone], and are to be sold by Mat : Lownes, A[n]no D 1617 [i.e. 1618]

Descrizione fisica

[60], 453, [3]; [4], 96, [6], 95-120 p

Altri autori (Persone)

SpenserJohn <1559-1614.>

TraversWalter <1547 or 8-1635.>

Soggetti

Ecclesiastical law

Church polity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Editor's note "To the reader" signed: I.S., i.e. John Spenser.

In fact books 1-5 only, plus the Tractates.

The title page is engraved by William Hole.

Signatures: A-2V⁶; [A]²  B-L⁶ M⁴.

The first leaf is blank.

Book 5 has separate letterpress title page dated 1616. "Certayne diuine tractates, and other godly sermons", also printed by Stansby (STC), has separate pagination, register, and title page with imprint "London printed for Henrie Fetherstone. 1618.". It includes a reprint of "A supplication made to the Privy Counsel" by Walter Travers. Within this section, "The ansvvere of Mr. Richard Hooker to a supplication, preferred by Master Walter Trauers, to the Honorable Lords of the Priuie Concell", "A learned discourse of iustification, works, and how the foundation of faith is ouerthrowne", "Three learned sermons", and "Tvvo sermons vpon part of S. Iudes Epistle" each have separate dated title page with same imprint. Copies occur with varying editions of the Tractates; copies lacking them may represent an early issue (STC).

In this edition, ¹A2r headpiece has an angel; 2V6 is blank.

Reproduction of the original in the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library.

Some print faded and show-through; some pages stained.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0160