Individual titles in this collection are often separated and sold as if complete in themselves, but the present volume reflects their original state and the publisher's intent.

•  ESTC T5785; Goldsmiths'-Kress 15080; Sabin 58244; Stephans, Paine Collection of Richard Gimbel, 1.   Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather label and gilt-stamped compartment decorations between gilt-ruled raised bands. Title-page and a few others with oval,19th-century institutional rubber-stamp; lower (closed) page edges rubber-stamped sometime later. Variable, mild to moderate foxing and other spotting, especially “in from edges”; occasional pencilled bracketing or underlining. One leaf with short tear in outer margin, not touching text.  (25027)

Kennett, an antiquary and translator of a number of French works, served as the first chaplain to the British merchants at Leghorn — where his ministry incurred the wrath of the Inquisition. An interesting international addition to this book's trouble with religious authority, for the Pensees were placed on the Index shortly after their original publication.

Binding:  Contemporary speckled calf and mottled calf framed and panelled in gilt rules with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; recently rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations within gilt-dotted raised bands.

•  ESTC T144329; Lowndes 1795. On Kennett, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Binding as above, corners and edges with minor rubbing; lower (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped. Front fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscription. Pages age-toned and in some instances browned; old, usually (but not quite always) faint waterstaining to a number of leaves; corner creases from old dog-earring and one old inkblot, one leaf with closed tear from outer margin touching a few letters without loss. Pagination erratic, but catchwords correct and text continuous. A solid, usable copy in an attractively refreshed binding.  (25099)

•  ESTC N34872; Part IV: ESTC T93310. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page with traces of now-absent early ownership inscription and with an early inked annotation identifying Pearce, then the Bishop of Bangor, as the author; one page with inked and pencilled annotations. Pages mildly age-toned.

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•  ESTC T98695. On Roger de Weseham, see: The Dictionary of National Biography,LX, 297–98. On Samuel Pegge, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLIV, 233–35. In recent marbled wrappers. Uncut copy with nice wide margins; deckle edges with some soiling and a few chipped or dog-eared corners with no loss of impression. Paper lightly age-toned.

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Provenance:  Ownership signature on the front fly-leaf of August Rauschenbusch, father of Walter Rauschenbusch, a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the U.S. Before it was given to the Rochester Theological Seminary (whence it was deaccessioned), this would have been one of the books in the Rauschenbusch home library for Walter's perusal.

•  ESTC T110135.   Contemporary calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons in the Cambridge style; spine with a bit of leather lost at bottom and old paper author/title labels. Ex-library, with title-page pressure-stamped (but not rubber-stamped); shadow of old pencilled call number on back of title-page and five-digit inked number to first leaf of preface. Joints (outside) expertly repaired. Some light foxing and an old blot to one leaf; otherwise, a nice clean old book.  (24168)

The marginal notes here are printed in French!

•  Palau 221179; Peeters-Fontainas 1056; Gallardo 3449; Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature 457. 19th-century calf, old style. Scuffed and abraded. Front free endpapers starting to loosen and with a few tears in margins. Text clean and tight.

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•  Brunet, IV, 575; Dibdin, II, 276–77; Schweiger, II, 725. 19th-century quarter sheep in imitation of morocco, with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles; spines, edges, and extremities rubbed, vol. I with spot of discoloration to spine. Main title-page with shadows of pencilled numerals. Pages clean.

This sixth edition of the Confession of Faith has yet another addition: “Of imposition of hands and Singing of Psalms in publick worship.”

Provenance:  1930s bookplate of John Clyde Oswald, author of (among other biblioworks) Benjamin Franklin, Printer (1917) and Printing in the Americas (1937).

•  Evans 5124; Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 317; Sabin 61497; Hildeburn, Pennsylvania, 811; ESTC W037515. Griffith has its own Evans citation: Evans 5194.   19th-century half black roan in imitation of morocco, abraded along front joint (outside) and edges of the boards; signed with blind-embossed stamp, “Turner Hamilton, Binder, Philadelphia.” Bookplate as above. Three leaves torn with varying degrees of loss of text: pp. 21–24 (in fact all readable with confidence except for one word), 33–34 (text approximately half missing). Age-toning and spotting; abrasion to rear pastedown. Far from a “perfect copy” and priced as such, certainly a copy withvery pleasing provenance.  (26032)

•  Evans 36546; ESTC W26008. Period-style quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. First two leaves with a bit of light spotting in margins, otherwise clean.

This second edition was printed in the same year as the first; although the title-page mentions "an engraving by an eminent artist," no illustration is present in this copy.

•  ESTC T7920; NCBEL, II, 695. Recently rebound in marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title label. Lacking engraving. A half-title (possibly not that belonging to this piece) has, at some point in the past, been cut in thirds and used to back/repair the title-page (to good effect, actually), leaf 45–46, and leaf 47–48 (text on p. 48, a list of "Pindar's" productions partially obscured by repair; the work itself, fine). One page (not the title) has been stamped by a now-defunct library; several leaves with tears, some repaired.