THE HISTORY OF THE PURITANS OR PROTESTANT NON-CONFORMISTS FROM THE REFORMATION UNDER KING HENRY VIII TO THE ACT OF TOLERATION UNDER KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY. (TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE)

Author: Neal, Daniel
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE PURITANS OR PROTESTANT NON-CONFORMISTS FROM THE REFORMATION UNDER KING HENRY VIII TO THE ACT OF TOLERATION UNDER KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY. (TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE)
Publication: London. Buckland, at the Buck in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Waugh and W. Fenner, at the Turk's-Head, 1754
Edition: Second Edition, Corrected

Description: Leather-bound. Matching set of two: Quarto, 10.4 in. x 8.5 in., Vol. I: pp. 900 [31] (index); Vol. II: pp. 883, [29] (index). Contemporary full calf. Gilt title on red and black panels, and five raised bands, to spine. Old leather sticker with inventory number to spines. Printed marginalia. Light age-toning to pages. Both textblocks are solid.

Volume I: Front board and front free endpaper detached but present; rear board cracked at gutter but threads holding. Portrait frontis. Corners nudged and showing. Bookstore listing, dated 1762, to front pastedown.

Volume II: Much the same: Front board detached but present; rear board cracked at gutter but threads holding. Corners nudged and showing. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Raged fore-edge to detached front free enpaper.

Laid in: Faded handwritten letter from the author's son, John Neal, that discusses current treatments for diptheria. Fair.

In 1720 Neal published his History of New England, which obtained for its author the honorary degree of MA from Harvard College. The History of the Puritans deals with the time between the Protestant Reformation and 1689; the first volume appearing in 1732, and the fourth and last in 1738. A standard 18th-century source for modern historians, this book provides a dissenting history of England which glorified the role of Puritanism in fostering English liberty.

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