12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 18
 

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R[obert] P[arsons]; Bunny, Edmund A Booke of Christian Exercise Appertaining to Resolution...By...

R[obert] P[arsons]; Bunny, Edmund A Booke of Christian Exercise Appertaining to Resolution...By R.P. Perused, and accompanied nowe with a treatise tending to pacification by Edmund Bunny. At Oxford, Printed by Ioseph Barnes, Printer to that famous University, 1585 bound with: The Second Part of the Booke of Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution...Written by the former Author R.P. At London, Printed by I. Roberts, for Simon VVaterson, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Crowne, 1599. 12mo, early full calf. Robert Parsons, or Persons, was a critical figure in the Catholic opposition to Elizabeth's reign, helping to establish the English Mission of the Society of Jesus. He travelled with Campion, retreating to France when Campion was captured. From there he continued in his writing, as well as plots and intelligencing against England. This work was a highly popular one, so successful in fact that Edmund Bunny adapted it to Protestant purposes.

Sold for £480
Estimated at £100 - £150


 

Binding cracked and scuffed, internally some foxing, marking and occasional marginal staining but generally a very good copy of a major work.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 12th Sep, 2018

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