Tillotson, John
[Collected sermons, finely bound]
£555
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
Published from the Originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D., Chaplain to his Grace. London: Richard Chiswell, 1700-4. 14 volumes, 8vo (18.4 x 11cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, a few volumes with half-title printed on recto of frontispiece, early ownership inscriptions (Selina Skipwith, dated 1785, and U. Cartwright) to initial blanks, bookplates of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Pembroke College, Oxford, occasional spotting, volume 10 frontispiece offset, volume 13 with wear to head of spine, volume 14 sunned or perhaps bound in non-uniform orange morocco but with the same tooling
Footnote
Note: John Tillotson was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694. This collected edition of his sermons does not contain a series-title or have its own entry on ESTC, but statements on the title-pages indicate that it was issued as a discreet set complete in fourteen volumes.