*1639* 1st 12\" FOLIO Richard Hooker [IN ENG/LONDON] Of Faith [BIBLE] Thick: 40pp
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*1639* 1st 12\" FOLIO Richard Hooker [IN ENG/LONDON] Of Faith [BIBLE] Thick: 40pp:
$51.00
1639. 1st thus/1st. Handsomely embellished.
RichardHooker. Of note, hisbest-known workOf the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politiehas been characterized as\"probably the first great work of philosophy and theology to be written in English.\" It is \"a continuous and coherent whole presenting a philosophy and theology congenial to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the traditional aspects of the Elizabethan Settlement. In political philosophy,Hookeris best remembered for his account of law and the origins of government.
THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND OF LOCKE’S ‘SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT.’ARGUABLY THE MOST PROFOUND WORK OF POLITICAL THEORY, GOVERNMENT AND DIVINITY WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BEFORE HOBBES. Here we have an early printing of one of his works. 1st Bishop Edition/1st Printing (see below). In English,albeit, an older style with \'f\' for \'s, etc. Published in London, England: 1639. Small Folio (approx. 8\" x 12\"). An important work by the \"inventor of Anglicanism.\" Pub. 1639... same year around 350 English Puritans on six ships, led by Francis Higginson in the Lyon\'s Whelp, sail from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to Salem, to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America. Thick: 40pp.ILLUSTRATED WITH handsome, ornately-illustratedTitle Page, large and elaborate woodcut dividers and vignette historiated initials, dividers, head-pieces, etc.
Uneven browning (shown), else textblockapproaches FINE. Thick, laid paper.Title page in elegant wood-cut compartments.
Sm. folio.Early editions of this are rare.
London, Printed by R. Bishop, 1639. A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the foundation of Faith is overthrowne.
1st Bishop edition. Wing H2626
The “judicious”Richard Hooker(1554-1600) has been deemed not only defender, but inventor of Anglicanism, the “father of Anglo-Catholic theology,” hisLawes“the terminus a quo for any … study of the specific genius of Anglicanism.” He presented the English church as “an independent branch of the Church Universal, neither Roman nor Calvinist, but at once Catholic and Protestant, with a positive doctrine and discipline of its own and a definite mission in the wide economy of Grace” Responding to the threat of “Presbyterian power” to the Church of England and to attcks on his own position, he produced “the first major work in the fields of theology, philosophy, and political thought to be written in English”–Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie. (Dictionary of National Biography).
At saleA Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the foundation of Faith isoverthrowne.By Richard Hooker,
Sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford.
London, Printed by R[ichard] Bishop. 1639.
About the author...
Richard Hooker(March 1554 – 3 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century.His defense of the role of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth century Caroline divines and later provided many members of the Church of England with a theological method which combined the claims of revelation, reason and tradition.About this printing, in particular...
After Printer William Stansby’s death in 1638 Richard Bishop produced a new edition of Hooker’s works in 1639, thus confirming that Stansby’s initial faith in the book was justified, even that Hooker’s Lawes [which this was published bound with] “had assumed the status of a contemporary classic” (Hill). Likely overall 5th edition. STC 13720.
An Aside....The \"S\" that Looks Like an \"F\"...
In the old Anglo-Saxon alphabet, from which the English alphabet is derived, the small \"s: was written in two forms: one is the \"long s\" that resembles our modern letter \"f\" (but note, it does not have the center bar), which is used when the \"s\" is the first letter of theword,or the first of a pair of \"s\'s\"; the other is the familiar shaped \"s\" which appears at the end of words. This usage is cognate to the two forms of \"s\" in the Greek alphabet. English printer John Bell first phased out the use of the long \"s\" in his books at the end of the 1700\'s, and by 1810 or so the new practice was universal in printed material. Interestingly, though, the use of the old long \"s\" continued in handwritten documents for many years, through the 1870\'s.
Additional Details, including Condtion, Edition, etc... 1639. In English. 1st Thus/1st. 1st Bishop Ed. Published in London, England. Small Folio (approx. 8\" x 12\").Title pages in elegant wood-cut compartments. Copious type-set notes.Early editions of this are rare.London, Printed by R. Bishop, 1639.ILLUSTRATED WITH handsome, ornately-illustrated Title Page, large and elaborate woodcut dividers and vignette historiated initials, dividers, head-pieces, etc.Thick, laid paper. 40pp. A few brown spots; browning to lower outside edges; elsetextblock overall approaches FINE. Else very light wear, as shown. Presents impressively. Clean, crisp, square, etc.
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*1639* 1st 12\" FOLIO Richard Hooker [IN ENG/LONDON] Of Faith [BIBLE] Thick: 40pp:
$51.00