Compleat Body Speculative Practical Divinity by Thomas Stackhouse, Used (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Full leather binding, no ex-lib. 3rd ed. rev., corrected, improved; vi+979pp plus detailed index. Water stain to first few pages. No nameor writing. CLEAN!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd ed revised corrected and improv'd by the author. Folio: frontis, [vi], 979, [1] blank, 12 index, 4p table. Title page printed in black and red. Contents bound before rather than after the Introduction. Contemp. full calf, rubbed and worn, with label (sl. chipped) to spine, but binding sound. Light offsetting to title from frontis. Rear endpaper detached and worn at edges. One section of ca. 10 leaves where top corners have been turned with associated creasing and dust soiling else contents very clean. A very good, sound copy.

A compleat body of speculative and practical divinity. Consisting of five parts: . The whole extracted from the best antient and modern writers, but chiefly from the works of such, as have been reputed the most able divines . To which are added, An alphabetical index. Likewise a table of texts of scripture . The third edition, revised, corrected, and improved, by the author. With unpaginated anex: An Index of the principal matters contained in this book. - Original book, no reprint!! In fine original full leather binding of that time,little wear to edges. Spine with gilt ornamentation and title in gold. No marks, no foxing. Few little holes outside the texts by wurms, only few. Overall a perfect printing, clean white pages throughout. Titel in black and red - a graet book and a collectors item. vi, 977, 16 S. Thomas Stackhouse (1677-1752) was an English theologian and controversialist. From 1701 to 1704 Stackhouse was headmaster of Hexham Grammar School, and on 28 December 1704 he was ordained priest in London. He then became curate of Shepperton in Middlesex, and from 1713 was minister of the English church at Amsterdam. In 1731 he was curate of Finchley. For some time Stackhouse lived in poverty. He was rescued by his appointment in the summer of 1733 to the vicarage of Marsh Benham, Berkshire. In 1737 he had a house in Theobald's Court, London; in 1741 he was living at Chelsea. The major work of Stackhouse was his New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity, which he brought out in numbers from 1733 and then published in three folio volumes in 1737. The genesis of the work was with two booksellers, John Wilford and Thomas Edlin; Stackhouse wrote a pamphlet about them. A second edition came out in numbers in 1742-4, and was published in two folio volumes, with a dedication to his patron, Bishop Edmund Gibson. It was then often reprinted, with additional notes, by other divines. (Wikipedia).

Folio, pp. [2], vi, 979, [17] index and table; title-p. printed in red and black; text browned throughout; mid-20th century black cloth, black cloth label lettered in gilt on spine; aside from the browning, a very good, sound copy, untrimmed.