Anglicanism: The Thought and Practice of the Church of England, Illustrated from the Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century, compiled and edited by Paul Elmer More and Frank Leslie Cross. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1957 - reprint of the 1935 first edition (reprinted 1951, 1957), printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons. ISBN: none - pre-ISBN. The classic anthology of Caroline divinity - Andrewes, Laud, Hooker, Taylor, Cosin, Thorndike, and the rest - arranged by topic with More's long introductory essay, still the standard sourcebook for seventeenth-century Anglican thought.

Provenance: from the personal library of the historian William Brown Patterson - scholar of the English Reformation and author of King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge) and William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Oxford) - with his ownership signature on the front pastedown, "William Brown Patterson, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 1958"; one of several books from his library offered here.

Condition: GOOD. Hardcover in purple cloth with gilt spine lettering, in the original tan dust jacket, unclipped ($7.50 on the front flap) and housed in a removable mylar protector. Binding sound; slight bow to the boards. Jacket toned with chipping and small losses at the spine ends. Foxing to the endpapers and page edges. A working scholar's copy: pencil underlining and marginal lines in places (see photo of the preface), no ink or highlighting. Patterson's signature as noted.

Ships promptly and boxed via USPS Media Mail. Please see photos - they form part of the description.