15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 195
 

195

Sparrow, Anthony, DD A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, And...

Sparrow, Anthony, DD
A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, And Constitutions Ecclesiastical; with other Publick Records of the Church of England...Printed for Robert Pawlet, at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleet Street, 1676. 8vo, full contemporary calf; eng. frontis. of the arms of the principal Sees of the Church; pagination confused but complete according to signatures and the list of Principal Heads. Third impression with additions.
A carefully collated presentation of the main Acts, Synods and Proclamations relating to the development of the Church of England in the Establishment. The work was originally published in 1661, immediately after the Restoration returned Sparrow to favour after his removal from positions owing to Anglican tendencies and use of the outlawed Book of Common Prayer. The book was part of the re-establishing of the certainties of Anglicanism against Nonconformists and Dissenters following the ousting of Cromwell's Puritan followers.

Sold for £40
Estimated at £60 - £100


 

. Binding worn, a vague musty air, but tight and clean internally.

 


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