Memorable Women of the Puritan TimesBy the Rev. James Anderson, Author of "Ladies of the Reformation," "Ladies of the Covenant," &c.
London: Blackie and Son, Paternoster Buildings, E.C.; Glasgow and Edinburgh
From the Preface:
The Puritan Times embrace the most interesting and instructive period in the annals of English History. Prolific in characters distinguished by great intellectual powers, combined with apostolic simplicity and piety, though shaded by some deformities, and detailing struggles for civil and religious liberty in opposition to arbitrary power, which rank amongst the most patriotic and heroic ever witnessed, and which have left unmistakeable traces of the Puritan type on the English character, and on English institutions; the history of those times must ever engage the attention, and be fraught with the lessons of wisdom. To this inviting field the author has turned his inquiries; and he hopes that the result, in this series of female biographies, embracing the lives of women belonging to or connected with the Puritan party in the seventeenth century, may not be unworthy of the public approval.
Details:
- Two SCARCE half-leather volume set
- Central circular gilt motif of the 'Ewing Gilmour S.G.F.S Institute
- Gilt-lettering to spines on black labels
- Five gilt fenced bands forming six compartments
- Speckled text-block edges
- East Gilmour S.G.F.S. Institute plate to front-pastedowns
- For contents please look at relevant photographs
- Volume I: pp: viii, [1] 408 including index
- Volume II: pp: [1], 408 including index
- Individual volume size: 190mm x 131mm
- Combined weight (unpacked): 1114g
- Undated, but c.1890
Condition:
Two volumes stained to lower third of spines; wear to extremities; hinges cracked - all intact and working but hinges delicate; text-blocks firm with leaves secure; spotting heavy to endpapers but only occasional within the main text; signatures to front-endpapers. Condition: fair.
A SCARCE offering of interest to the student of Puritan times or the history of seventeenth century women!
Please consult photographs fully as these are part of the description