Twisden Roger (2 results)
Language: English
Published by John Hartley, Holborn, UK 1698
- Hardcover
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.Pride and Prejudice-Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFull Leather. Condition: Good. Two works in one volume. Full leather with designs tooled on the covers and raised bands with a red title slip in one compartment. ix, 292 pp.; 40 pp. Separations along the spine edges and cracking inside both covers but all the cords holding firm, very small bookplate with just a number on it, lar…ge bookplate upside down inside the rear cover of Francis Eyre Esq. of Warkworth Castle in Northamptonshire in the U.K., previous owner's name in ink, foxing, otherwise internals nice.
More imagesPublished by Printed for John Hartley, over-against Gray's-Inn, in Holborn, London 1698
- First Edition
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA)
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. A potent and influential treatise detailing the divine misfortunes visited upon those who seized Church property during the English Reformation. This 1698 edition, published for the 'terror of evil doers', traces a lineage of disaster from antiquity… to the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII. This copy bears the armorial bookplate of Charles James Blomfield, the influential 19th-century Bishop of London, adding significant ecclesiastical provenance. KEY FEATURES +++ Content: Includes both Spelman's 'History and Fate of Sacrilege' and Roger Twisden's 'Beginners of a Monastick Life'. +++ Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Charles James Blomfield, D.D. (1786-1857), Bishop of London and primary architect of the Church Commissioners. +++ Binding: Full period leather; boards reattached with new leather spine and gilt-lettered labels. +++ Historical Utility: A primary source for the 'curse of the abbey lands' folklore that permeated English landed gentry for centuries. +++ Imprint: London: Printed for John Hartley, 1698. (ESTC R232843 / Wing S4927). +++ Specs: 12mo; 7.25 inches tall / [10], 292; [2], 3-40 pages. Complete. CONDITION: Good -- Period leather boards show moderate shelf wear and rounded corners; professional restoration with boards reattached and a new spine. Text is clean with light, even toning and occasional minor handling marks. K2 signature slightly pulled but secure. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Sir Henry Spelman was the preeminent antiquary of his age, a man who viewed the legal history of the Church through a lens of deep spiritual consequence. 'History and Fate of Sacrilege' was his most controversial work; it argued that the poverty and domestic tragedies of the English nobility were direct 'divine punishments' for the theft of monastic lands. Written in 1632 but suppressed for decades due to its political volatility, its 1698 publication served as a stark warning to the Williamite era. This specific copy's association with Bishop Charles James Blomfield is noteworthy. Blomfield was the most powerful prelate of the Victorian era, overseeing the redistribution of Church wealth-a modern institutionalization of the very rights Spelman sought to defend through antiquity. Having this work in his library suggests a scholarly engagement with the historical 'debt' of the Church of England. SUBJECTS: Ecclesiastical Law, Church of England, Monasticism, English Reformation, Henry VIII, Divine Retribution, Folklore of the Gentry, Association Copy, Antiquarian Theology, Early English Printing.
