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| Notes: PUBLISHED IN 1647. Hardcover in leather. 1353 pp. Continuous pagination. Binding solid. This book is quite large, measuring 12.75 inches x 9 inches x 3.75 inches, and is 8 lbs. Leather boards scuffed. Leather on spine missing, and rear board has detached, yet is present. Many title pages - all dated 1647 or earlier. We will list a few titles: - Meditations and Vowes, Divine and Morall; - Heaven Upon Earth; - The Art of Divine Meditation; - Holy Observations; - Salomons Ethicks or Morals; - Epistles in Six Decads; There are many more title pages. Many title pages but continuous pagination throughout. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Joseph Hall (1574 to 1656) as an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way. Thomas Fuller wrote: 'He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations. Hall's relationship to the stoicism of the classical age, exemplified by Seneca the Younger, is still debated, with the importance of neo-stoicism and the influence of the Flemish philosopher Justus Lipsius to his work being contested, in contrast to Christian morality.'" (Wikipedia). At 8 lbs., due to the size and weight of this copy, an additional shipping charge may apply. Full refund if not satisfied. | |||||||||||||||||