The lives of the Puritans: containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of religious liberty, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of Uniformity in 1662 ... In three volumes
Author: Brook, Benjamin
Title: The lives of the Puritans: containing a biographical account of those divines who distinguished themselves in the cause of religious liberty, from the reformation under Queen Elizabeth, to the Act of Uniformity in 1662 ... In three volumes
Publication: London: printed for James Black, York-Street, Covent-Garden, 1813
Description: 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxviii, 452; [iii]-viii, 507, [1]; [iii]-x, 358, [4]; bound without the half-titles in original blue paper-covered boards, rebacked with a black faux marbled cloth shelfback, manuscript paper labels on spines; boards and spines toned, corners bumped and rubbed, endpapers and first and last leaves of texts foxed, the rest of the text clean and sound, very good. From the DNB: "[Brook] is agreed to have been more adept in the writing of biography than general history: The Lives of the Puritans (1813) is perhaps his best and most frequently cited work." Sabin 8235.
Seller ID: 66508
Subject: Americana, English Literature, Theology
