Burnet Gilbert Preface (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Uncommon in the U.S. Volume 3 only of 4 of the 1842 American Edition. Brown decorative hardcover boards with stamped designs, gilt lettering and gilt designs on the spine. Boards with heavy wear; edges torn; pages dusty with heavy foxing and soiling. Illustrated. Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. In the mid-1670s, a French translation of Nicholas Sanders attacked the English Reformation as a political act carried on by a corrupt king. Several of Burnet's friends wished him to publish a rebuttal of the work, so in 1679 his first volume of The History of the Reformation of the Church of England was published.

Leather. Condition: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A rare first edition of the Clergyman's Instructor, a selection of tracts by George Herbert, Jeremy Taylor, Edmund Gibson and others, advising on ministerial duties. The first edition of this work in a half morocco binding with marbled boards and end papers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front paste down.A very scarce first edition of this collection of tracts advising on ministerial duties. Edited by John Randolph, this work contains George Herbert's A Priest to the Temple, or the Country Parson, Edmund Gibson's 1724 Directions Given to the Clergy of the Diocese of London, Gilbert Burnet's advice on pastoral care, as well as various discourses and instructions by Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Sprat, George Bull, Josiah Hort, and Johanne Stearne. In a half morocco binding. Externally, sound. Rubbed to the spine and extremities with shelf wear to the boards. Hinges are starting but remain firmly held by cords. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for spotting to the first and last few pages, with heavier spotting to the first couple of pages. Good Only. book.