Thomas Fuller B D (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Navy blue cloth hardback book, with beautiful gilt design on front board and spine, gilt title impressions running across the top half of the spine. The book is in really good condition, comes with a cream coloured box, slipcase. Normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. 441 pages all intact, nice tight binding, all pages, text, and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Set in Garamond by Tradespools Ltd, and printed by Butler and Tanner Ltd, Frome on Edinburgh Antique Laid Paper. Binding design by David Eccles. Another wonderful book from The Folio Society.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 16mo, unpaginated, collates A8-L8, last leaf blank, verso of last leaf with one-page notes in early secretarial hand. Hardback, with original vellum, contrasting label, trimmed to upper edge, and John Burns signature to fly leaf, dated July 1916; pages slightly marked. Rather rare first edition written as a satire against Oliver Cromwell. Title page is followed by a dedication to the reader (3 leaves), followed by index (4 leaves), followed by the text divided into six books. Wing F2406.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Third. 2 volumes, bound in one (printed 1647 - 1648). Folio. Early leather boards, rebacked with renewed leather spine. Some wear to cover extremities, but a solid binding and cover. Marbled end sheets. Scattered spotting, (generally light) staining. Collation: [16], 286, [28] p. The second work (which is a 2nd ed.): [8], 189, 200-394, 435-510 p. Both titles have additional illustrated title pages engraved by William Marshall. Numerous portraits in the second work and printers' devices throughout. The first title lacks the map. Refs: Wing F2438 & F2444. ESTC R226090 & R6571. The first work is Fuller's early modern history of the Crusades. In it he discusses the causes, ramifications, and potential justification of the Holy War. Fuller was critical of the Papal motives and results of endeavor. The second work is a utopian discourse on what constitutes the best state. It describes the holy state as existing in the family and in public life, gives rules of conduct, model "characters" for the various professions and profane biographies. He outlines the characteristics of "the good husband", "the good servant", and "the good widow", and (perhaps more interestingly) biographies of profane people. It was the most popular of Fuller's writings.

Leather. Condition: Good. Leather. 4to. Thomas Buck, Cambridge, UK. 1639. 286 pgs. Frontispiece. No map. Lacking the declaration of the frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in 3/4 leather and brown cloth with titles present to the spine and front board (possibly a later 19th century rebind). Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards have scuffing and wear present). No ownership marks present. Frontispiece is chipped and worn, last page is chipped and worn. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The most precise timetable of Crusades through the history from the beginning of Christendom to the end of the Templars. An extremely popular anti-Catholic (and anti-Jewish as well) account of the crusades, citing the cruel and impious behavior of popes and participants alike as a reason for the failure of the conquest of the Holy Land. Fuller, chaplain extraordinary to Charles II, was one of the earliest English historians thus to analyze the crusades as a historical event. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.