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. ... 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, written by Isaac Walton.
Richard Hooker (1553/4-1600)
Category
Books
Date
1723
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3135668
Summary
Bibliographic description
lxxxviii, 344, 343-518, [8] p., [2] plates ; fol. Manuscript bookseller's eighteenth-century ink price code on front pastedown: mg. Ink spots on p. 203; old wax dropping on p. 275. Pp xiii-xvi from an eighteenth-century printed volume of sermons inserted between pp. 100-101. Provenance: (1) Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription on title page: J: Marten. (2) Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles York [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. The “e” at the end of “Yorke” has been added in ms. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled, polished sheep over boards on four raised cords plus two false raised bands, gilt spine tooling, late eighteenth-century red spine label, double gilt fillet with inner blind rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, blind roll on board edges, red sprinkled edges. Front cover and two plates loose.
Makers and roles
Richard Hooker (1553/4-1600), author Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), author John Gauden (1605-1662), editor