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Lot 47

BRIDGES (JOHN)
A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiastical Matters, John Windet, for Thomas Chard, 1587

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BRIDGES (JOHN)

A Defence of the Government Established in the Church of Englande for Ecclesiastical Matters, part black letter, large 18-line woodcut initialon preface leaf, early vellum, title lettered in ink on spine, yapp edges [STC 3734], 4to (218 x 160mm.), John Windet, for Thomas Chard, 1587

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Written when Bridges (1535/6-1618) was Dean of Salisbury, this work aimed to answer the presbyterian opponents of the religious settlement; it was his "chief service to the nation... Archbishop Whitgift saw the book in proof, and commended it as unanswerable" (ODNB).

Provenance: John Williams, ownership signature (1614) on front free endpaper; Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764, Lord Chancellor), armorial bookplate.

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