[1875] Homes & Haunts Of Luther. SUPERB TREE-CALF BINDING. Theology.

'Homes and haunts of Luther. By John Stoughton, D.D. With numerous illustrations'

By John Stoughton. [1807-1897]

London: Religious Tract Society.

Undated: [1875].

 
Quarto. [8.50'' tall x 6.75'' wide].

Collates [vi], [2], 278p. A very nice copy, presented in a superb polished tree-calf binding. Illustrated throughout. A good, clean copy, minor marks, blemishes or light reading wear else a very nice copy for the discerning collector.

Bookseller ticket to the inner front board 'Loxley Brothers, Stationers, Booksellers, & Printers, Fargate, Sheffield'.

 
John Stoughton (18 November 1807 – 24 October 1897)  
English Nonconformist minister and historian. He was born at Norwich. His father was an Episcopalian, his mother a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Stoughton was educated at Norwich Grammar School, and, after an interval of legal study, at Highbury Congregational College. In 1833 he became minister at Windsor, in 1843 at Kensington; in 1856 he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union. From 1872 to 1884 he was professor of historical theology in New College, Hampstead.
 
Stoughton contributed an account of Nonconformist modes of celebrating the Lord's Supper to the ritual commission of 1870, arranged a conference on co-operation between Anglicans and dissenters (presided over by Archbishop Tait) in 1876, was one of Dean Stanley's lecturers in Westminster Abbey and a pall-bearer at his funeral. He was elected to the Athenaeum Club in 1874 on the nomination of Matthew Arnold. He died at Ealing on 24 October 1897.
 

Bound in a superb polished tree-calf prize binding.

With an ornate border and a large central motif depicting ‘Wesley College, Sheffield’ to both boards.

Spine with raised bands and ornate gilt décor to the compartments. With a red calf label lettered in gilt.

Presentation bookplate of Wesley College to the inner front board. An extremely attractive high-quality binding.