Exposition Notes First Second Epistles by Sclater William (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto [7.50'' tall x 6.00'' wide x 2.50'' thick]. Collates complete [8], 351, [1], 383-598; [8], 307, [1]p. Engraved title page and with a further printed title page to the second epistle, also dated 1627 but printed by George Miller, for George Vincent. A very good, solid and clean copy. Minimal very light marks, blemishes or reading wear else a particularly clean and attractive copy, presented in an attractive, restored contemporary binding. William Sclater [1575-1626]. The second son of Anthony Sclater, who is said to have held the benefice of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire for fifty years, and to have died in 1620, aged 100. William Sclater was born at Leighton in October 1575. A king's scholar at Eton College, he was admitted scholar of King's College, Cambridge, on 24 August 1593, and three years later was admitted fellow of his college. He graduated M. A., and was admitted to priest's orders in 1599, shortly after which he left Cambridge and served a curacy at Walsall. The sermons he preached there on Romans (i-iii.) were printed in London in 1611, and passed to a second edition; they had a strong Puritan bias. On 4 September 1604 he was preferred to the rectory of Pitminster, Somerset; after some resistance, he accepted the ceremonies and the surplice which he had rejected in his former diocese. His piety secured him the patronage of Lady Elizabeth Poulett and her husband, John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, who in September 1619 preferred him to the living of Limpsham in Somerset; but Sclater suffered from bad health and returned to Pitminster, where he died in 1626. Bound in full contemporary calf. Neatly re-backed with the original leather overlaid to the spine. With some neat corner leather repairs. A solid and handsome period binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4to [7.50 tall x 5.50 wide]. Collates complete [8], 351, [1], 383-598; [6], 307, [1]p. General title page laid on paper with trimmed outer and lower margins. A good, solid and sound copy in the main. Occasional watermarking in places else a nice, solid and clean copy in the main. An uncommon theological work on the Epistles to the Thessalonians. Presented in an attractive, restored period binding. Final leaf with some staining and a small 1 paper repair. With some nice MS notation to the final blank leaf John, the son of James and June Mitchel was born the 25th June, 1830 . Bound in full contemporary calf with blind tooled border to the boards. Finely re-backed with raised bands, blind lines and a hand-tooled, gilt-lettered label to the spine. A rather attractive restored period binding. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT ME TO REQUEST.

Full Leather. Second Edition. 8vo. (7 1/2" X 5 1/2"); in later (but by no means 20th century) full black calf binding with titling lettered in gilt to the spine; [8], 351, [1], 383-598 pages; [4], 307 pages.~Collates complete; First blank leaf of A Briefe Exposition is present. Personal inscription on the front flyleaf; previous owner's name on the rear flyleaf; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown, with profile of three African American women.~~The Second Edition of William Sclater's Exposition with Notes upon the First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians and the Second Edition of A Briefe Exposition with notes upon the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, bound together in one volume. Noted in the ESTC as commonly bound and issued together. William Sclater the younger was near this time a fellow of Kings College, Cambridge, and in 1630 he graduated and began his career in the clergy. He was noted by his peers for his piety and scholarship.~~Slater, a Puritan, held the benefice of Leighton Buzzard in Bedforshire for fifty years (see wiki). The very idea of holding forth from the pulpit of Leighton Buzzard pleases us.~~~ (ESTC S116809 ; S116810. DNB XVII, 936-937).