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Published by Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., Museum Street, for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust., London, 1953
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HARRISON, ROBERT (d. 1585) Schoolmaster, then separatist, and BROWNE, ROBERT (1550s-1633) English separatist and founder of the Brownist group. The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne. London : Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., Museum Street, for the Sir Halley Stew…art Trust. 1953. 8vo. xi, 560 pp. dw. Volume 2 of 6 of the Elizabethan Nonconformist Texts Series, edited by Albert Peel and Leland H. Carleson. Original maroon cloth cover with gilt titles. Fine. Dustjacket near fine in protective cover and a little browned down the spine. Not price-clipped. Contents clean, crisp and unmarked apart from previous owner on the ffep. Nice copy! The volumes in the series are: Vol. 1: Cartwrightiana, Vol. 2: The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, Vol. 3: The Writings of Henry Barrow 1587-1590. Vol. 4: The Writings of John Greenwood 1587-1590, Vol 5: The Writings of Henry Barrow 1590-91, Vol 6: The Writings of John Greenwood and Henry Barrow 1591-1593. The series was originally published in the 1950s by George Allen & Unwin making available very rare Reformation and early Puritan material (tracts and manuscripts etc.) for the very first time. It is impossible to understand the rise and development of Independency and of the democratic idea in religion and in politics without reflection upon some of this rare material.
Elizabethan Nonconformist texts. Edited for Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Albert Peel (v. 1-2) and Leland H. Carlson (v. 1-6)
Cartwright, Thomas 1535-1603; Robert Harrison d.1585?; Robert Browne 1550?-1633;Henry Barrow 1550?-1593; John Greenwood d.1593
Published by London: [1951-1970], George Allen and Unwin, 1970
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Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.Alec R. Allenson, Inc.
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 1st collected. 6 v. complete; 22 cm. Some vols. in djs. [Projected: The writings of John Penry, A parte of a register; no more publ.] I. Cartwrightiana, 1951. Two very godly and comfortable letters, The holy exercise of a true fast (+ app.), preface to An hospitall for the diseased; 17 ms. items. x, [2], 268 p. -- II.… The writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, 1953. Preface to Lavater's Of ghostes, A little treatise uppon the first verse of 122 Psalm, Three formes of catechismes: Harrison; A booke which sheweth+, A true and short declaration, An answere to Master Cartwright: Browne; 15 ms. items. ix, [2], 560 p. -- III. The writings of Henry Barrow 1587-1590, 1962. A breefe sum of our profession, A true des cription out of the worde of God, The first part of the platforme, A brief discoverie of the false church; 12 ms. items. xi, [2], 680 p. -- IV. The writings of Henry Barrow and John Greenwood 1587-1590, 1962. An answere to George Gifford's Pretended defence of read praiers,A collection of certaine sclaunderous articles, A collection of certain letters; 20 ms. items. [9], 344 p. (305-344: separatist prisoners) -- V. The writings of Henry Barrow 1590-1591, 1966. A plaine refutation of Mr. George Giffarde's reprochful books (1-2); 7 ms. items. vii, [2], 397 p. -- VI. The writings of JG and HB 1591-1593, 1970. A breife refutation of Mr. George Giffard 1-2, The examinations of Henry Barrowe, John Grenewood and John Penrie; 48 ms. items. xiv, [1], 516 p. -- 'Originally the scheme was to provide the corpus of the writings of the fathers of Independency. .many of the parerga of Thomas Cartwright. .were so interlocked with those of the Independents that a volume of Cartwrightiana seemed a necessary preliminary.' (I, vii) G/VG lt.spotted brick cloth. Vol. III ex-lib., backstrip skinned.
