An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England, From the First Planting of Christianity, to the End of the Reign of King Charles the Second; With a Brief Account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland. Collected from the Best Ancient Historians, Councils, and Records. New Edition, With a Life of the Author, the Controversial Tracts Connected with the History, and an Enlarged Index. 9 vols (set)

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DATE RANGE: 1845-46. Attractive 19th-century full brown calf, double gilt fillets and blind roll framing boards. Raised bands, ornate gilt decor, and one red gilt and one black gilt label per spine. Gilt decor to board edges, blind decor to turn-ins. Mild rubbing to spine and board edges. Front board of vol. IV just starting at top spine. 8vos (14.8 x 22.3cm). All edges marbled. Hinges sound. Marbled endpapers uncracked at gutters. Small Alton Abbey library sticker to front free endpaper, with shelfmark in red pen to verso of same, in all vols. Vol. IX has further library sticker to front blank endpage. A little mild foxing, mostly to early and late pages. Pen inscription to front blank endpage of vol. I to Edward Saxon Richards: ‘Edvardo Saxon Richards / Collegii St. Petri Radleiensis / alumno / In Examinatione Publica / Propemodum Victori(?) / Diligentice ergo custos socius(?)que / Octob 23. 1854’. Richards was born in 1837 and became one of the first prefects of Radley School. He was awarded an Exhibition to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1855, but died in 1857, part-way through a successful Oxford undergraduate career; his father, the Rector of Farlington, Hampshire, founded Radley’s Richards Gold Medal in his memory. Awarded for academic excellence, it remains the highest prize awarded annually by Radley. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), controversialist, author, and bishop of the nonjuring Church of England. Collier’s Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain was first published in 1708 and 1714; this 1845-46 publication was intended ‘to give an accurate reprint of Collier’s great work without note or comment, adding the controversial pieces relating to the History published at the time, and a Life of the Author, embracing a review of his opinions, and those of the Nonjurors as a body, expressly written for this edition’ (Advertisement, vol. IX, p. iii). Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs.