Defoe, Daniel [?].

A letter to a member of Parliament, shewing the necessity of regulating the press: chiefly from the necessity of publick establishments in religion. From the rights and immunities of a national church.

Oxford: printed for George West, and Henry Clements, 1699. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [iv], 67, [i]pp. Last three pages of text provided in excellent facsimile. Title-page repaired. Disbound. ESTC R4998; Wing D837. Good.

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Book number: 2756

Catalogue: Books about Books, Seventeenth Century Books

BOOKS-ABOUT-BOOKS. PRINTERS - TWO CONDEMNED TO GALLEYS, TWO HANGED, & TWO MORE PUT ON THE RACK & THEN HANGED.

The Present State of Europe: or, the Historical and Political Monthly Mercury, giving an account of all the Publick and Private occurrences, Civil, Ecclesiastical and Military, that are most considerable in every Court: ...

London: Printed for Henry Rhodes at the Star, the corner of Bride-lane, Fleetstreet, and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry, 1694. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. Pp. [ii], 389-425, [ix]. Disbound. December 1694 issue. Contains interesting item on how some Booksellers and Printers were seized at Paris, by reason of certain libels they had sold. Later two of them were condemned to the galleys, two were hanged and the last two put on the rack before they were hanged (p. 405). Good.

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Book number: 1529

Catalogue: Books about Books, Seventeenth Century Books