The works of that learned and judicious divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, . in eight books of the laws of ecclesiastical polity, compleated out of his own manuscripts. Dedidcated to... Charles II. ... To which are added, several other treatises by the same author. All revised and corrected... There is also prefix'd before the book, the life of the author, sometime written by Isaac Walton.
Richard Hooker (1553/4-1600)
Category
Books
Date
1705
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3042308
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10],30,23-286,289-392, 351-553,[1]p, plates . port.. . fol.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate with peacock crest and motto "Le bon temps viendra" [motto of the Harcourt family, who lived at Nuneham Park]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: Nuneham Park Library 23/= 6.49 [Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, home of Harcourt family]. Binding: Eighteenth-century panelled calf over boards; rebacked (in later eighteenth or nineteenth century?) in calf; green morocco spine label with title "Hooker's Works"; sewn on six raised bands.
Makers and roles
Richard Hooker (1553/4-1600) John Gauden (1605-1662) Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)