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Condition: good. A former library book in shelf binding with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Scott. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

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Second edition. Square 8vo in 4's. (6), xxii, (12), 491, (5) pp. Early full calf, spine with raised bands, recent gilt lettered red label, original gilt tooled device repeated to the other panels. Some browning, the title page the more so, joints and spine ends repaired, some wear to the boards. Originally published in 1618 as "The Historie of Tythes".

Condition: Very Good. . Hardback. Published 1618. First edition. No Publisher given. Full calf, raised bands, single gilt cross bands & leather title label to spine. Light wear to extremities but good overall, with book stamp on inside cover & text remaining clear. . . . .

[6], xxii, [12], 491, [+5] pages, title page printed in red and black, dedication, preface, contents, references, errata, 18.4 x 14.8 cms, endpapers renewed with the original front endpapers laid down (aged-toned and chipped), title-page toned and a little faded, upper corner chipped, with the inked owners' inscription of Thos. Bryan Richards (1798) and Wm. Cooke, early inked marginalia and underlining; contemporary hollow-backed vellum, manuscript author and title on the spine, tidemark to the lower corner of the text leaves, affecting the margin only, a good sound copy. First edition of an antiquarian classic by John Selden (1584-1654) eminent jurist, polymath, prolific scholar, and, in recent times, celebrated for his ownership of the earliest surviving Chinese merchant map of East Asia, re-discovered with justifiable fanfare as a treasure of the Bodleian Library by Robert Batchelor in 2008. At the time of its release, Selden's "The History of Tithes": "gave great offense to the clergy and was vigorously refuted in a number of volumes to which Selden was forbidden the right to print replies" (Pforzheimer). It has been noted that the absence of the printer's name and the place of publication showed that Selden anticipated an unfavourable reaction to his denial of divine right of tithes. He was not disappointed. The work was suppressed and Selden was forced to apologize for having given offense-- and the book was withdrawn from circulation. His work was much studied: this copy with early marginalia: "by this Historie the Right of tithing belong not to ye profession of ye Canonist Civilian or Divine but with (?) Lawyers." (the last three words hastily crossed out). Early owners include London Antiquary Thomas Bryan Richards, whose extensive Library was sold by King & Lochée in 1812.

Condition: Very Good. . Hardback. Published 1618. First edition. No Publisher given. Full calf, raised bands, single gilt cross bands & leather title label to spine. Light wear to extremities but good overall, with book stamp on inside cover & text remaining clear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.