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Book size - 7.25 x 4.5 inches, pp. (14 ) + 506 , hardback with full calf contemporaneous binding, hand-sewn headbands. Book condtion - Good ; this copy contains a facsimile title page with a good imitation of the original (please see photo) ; the date of publication and the printer derive from correspondence of this copy's pagination and mis-pagination with the 1697 edition. Contents - preliminaries quite soiled and foxed but this diminishes greatly into the main textblock, 1st flyleaf with creasing and fraying of the fore-edge, 2nd flyleaf with some staining on the fore-edge and with an ink inscription - ! Mrs Stokes . A Present from her Mother in the year 1827" - . front flyleaves and title page with paper reinforcement down the length of the inner hinges (visible but neatly done), some creases in the pages towards the very end of the book, boards securely attached, lightly tipped in inside the rear board is a printed list of the contents, top, fore- and bottom edges originally coloured brown but now with some patchy losses of colour, the binding is a little cocked/skewed vertically ; full calf with simple 5 panelled spine and with boards having a a blind double-ruled central double rectangle with a floral motif at each corner ; corners a bit bent with some wear but firm, boards's edge all very sound, back with some light cracking of leather but remaining very sound and with no marks as such, rear spine sound with small split at base and small indistinct leather patch at the top, spine complete with some rubbing at head and tail, spine leather very sound and with no marks, front hinge expertly repaired with leather strip which blends well with the original, front clean and with some slight surface cracking and dullness towords the top . Please see photos for indications of condition and contents.(The darker area in the lower half of the front cover is caused by the photographer's shadow). John Norris (1657 1712), was an English theologian, philosopher and poet associated with the Cambridge Platonists. He became an early opponent of John Locke, whose ' An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ' (1690) he attacked in the same year; he also opposed Locke's theories in his 'Essay toward the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World ' . Norris wrote on numerous topics, including politics, religion, philosophy and the Christian life. ( Brief biographical information from Wikipedia and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ) This volume contains 6 of his works -- 'Reason and Religion : Or, The Grounds and Measures of Devotion, Consider'd from the Nature of God and the Nature of Man.' (Pages 1 to 262 ) : 'A Sermon Preach'd in the Church of Bath, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells .' (Pages 263 to 282 ) : 'The Charge of Schism Continued: Being A Justification of the Author of Christian Blessedness for his Charging the Separatists with Schism, Notwithstanding the Toleration' (Pages 283 to 346 ) : 'Two Treatises Concerning the Divine Light. The First , Being an Answer to a Letter of a Learned Quaker, which he is Pleased to Call A Just Reprehension to John Norris for his Unjust Reflections on the Quakers… etc '. (Pages 347 to pages 428 ) : 'The Grossness of the Quaker's Principle of the Light Within, with their Inconsistency in Explaining it.' (Pages 429 to 453 ) : (Note : there is mis-pagination after page 448 : page 449 is mis-labelled as 443 ) : Spiritual Counsel : or, The Father's Advice to his Children. (Pages 455 to 506). Seller Inventory # 2475
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