15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 204
 

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Lewis, John An Apology for the Clergy of the Church of England. Printed for Richard Wilkin, at...

Lewis, John
An Apology for the Clergy of the Church of England. Printed for Richard Wilkin, at the King's Head in St Paul's Churchyard, 1711. 8vo, full contemporary panelled calf; xxviii, xxi, [1 (blank)], 526 (lacking pp. 107-8); provenance: Joseph Beeby 1755 (his owner's poetical inscription throughout book shaming any who would steal this book).
Lewis was a strict Low Church Anglican who frequently excited the hostility of the High Church wing. His views found favour however with Archbishops Tenison and Wake, leading to new appointments. This particular polemic was written in opposition to Mathew Tindal's Rights of the Christian Church. Tindal (so High he even dabbled with Rome at one point) was an eminent Deist (and lawyer) and his pamphlets and contributions to cases frequently steered English policy (such as case law on piracy and the freedom of the press). Tindal's work extensively commented on church/state relations in a manner which did not impress Lewis, who disliked the weakening of the power and position of the clergy.

Sold for £40
Estimated at £60 - £100


 

. Joints cracking at head and foot of spine, but boards still attached, generally good inside, lacking pp. 107-8.

 


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