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. Dedicated to the King's most excellent majesty, Charles II. by whose royal father (near his Martyrdom) the former five books (then only extant) were commended to his dear children, as an excellent means to satisfie private scruples, and settle the publick peace of this church and kingdom. To which are added, several other treatises by the same author. All revised and corrected in numberless places of the former edition, by a diligent hand. 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
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3168348
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10],30,23-286,289-392,351-553,[1]p, plates : port. ; fol. Running number: 3865. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ιβ'." [i.e. iota beta' = Greek number 12]. Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf: "E dono candidissimi juvenis Jacobi Joy" [i.e. James Joy, author of "Epistola ad amicum familiaris"?]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style panelled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillets and title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Richard Hooker (1553/4-1600) John Gauden (1605-1662) Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) Walter Travers (1547-1635)