![TRACTS-- A Supplication of the Family of Love … for grace and favour. Examined, and found to be derogatorie in an hie degree, unto the glorie of God, the honour of our King, and the religion in this Realme. [London]: for John Legate, printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1606. 4° (169 x 125mm). Speckled calf by F. Bedford, gilt spine panels, triple fillets on covers, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this scarce pamphlet.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0367_000(tracts--_a_supplication_of_the_family_of_love_for_grace_and_favour_exa052057).jpg?w=1)
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TRACTS-- A Supplication of the Family of Love … for grace and favour. Examined, and found to be derogatorie in an hie degree, unto the glorie of God, the honour of our King, and the religion in this Realme. [London]: for John Legate, printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1606. 4° (169 x 125mm). Speckled calf by F. Bedford, gilt spine panels, triple fillets on covers, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this scarce pamphlet.
THOMSON, James (1700-1748). Antient and Modern Italy compared: being the first part of Liberty, a poem. London: A. Millar, 1735. 4° (226 x 161mm).Woodcut ornaments. (Half-title soiled and short at fore-margin.) Later 19th-century half calf and marbled boards. Provenance: William Bell Scott (signature on front pastedown) – A.H. Bright (bookplate; [?]his purchase note in pencil, ‘5/- Garratt April 26 1890’). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the first part, with price one shilling on title. The two later issues were on fine paper. Foxon T-186; Rothschild 2425.
With three other tracts, Robert Naunton Fragmenta regalia (1641; waterstained). FIRST EDITION. Wing N-249; John Selden Table Talk (1689). FIRST EDITION. Pforzheimer 859; Wing S-2437; and A Present for a Papist or The History of the Life of Pope Joan (1740; upper cover detached). A compilation taken chiefly from Alexander Cooke’s Pope Joan (1675).
THOMSON, James (1700-1748). Antient and Modern Italy compared: being the first part of Liberty, a poem. London: A. Millar, 1735. 4° (226 x 161mm).Woodcut ornaments. (Half-title soiled and short at fore-margin.) Later 19th-century half calf and marbled boards. Provenance: William Bell Scott (signature on front pastedown) – A.H. Bright (bookplate; [?]his purchase note in pencil, ‘5/- Garratt April 26 1890’). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the first part, with price one shilling on title. The two later issues were on fine paper. Foxon T-186; Rothschild 2425.
With three other tracts, Robert Naunton Fragmenta regalia (1641; waterstained). FIRST EDITION. Wing N-249; John Selden Table Talk (1689). FIRST EDITION. Pforzheimer 859; Wing S-2437; and A Present for a Papist or The History of the Life of Pope Joan (1740; upper cover detached). A compilation taken chiefly from Alexander Cooke’s Pope Joan (1675).
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