Author: Lupton,David] anonymous (STC 16942)
Title: GLORY OF THEIR TIMES or The Lives of ye Primitive Fathers, co[n]tayning their Chiefest Actions, workes, Sentences, and Deaths.
Description: London, I.Okes 1640 Engraved Titlepage with 5 vignette illustrations surrounding the title within cartouche signed G. Glover + 45 text engravings of early church leaders. . Small quarto Tan leather with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration in compartments spine titled in blind tooling.as also along dentelles. [Tips worn /head of spine sl.chipped/ partial wear to hinges but all cords fully secure and covers well attached.] [8pp incl.pictorial titlepage + to reader +contents ] +538pp Neat name to margin to To reader with J.Hamilton 1782 and below Mary Hamilton, some erratic pagination but collated and complete. *Biography for each Church Father, with their most famous sayings and a list of their complete writings with text within ruled borders and printed side notes. All the portraits in good impressions and some with additional small insert of happenings from the life of Philo to Josephus ending with Thomas Aquinus in 1265. There are no tears, no markings as this copy is in an exceptionally clean crisp condiiton.

Keywords: religious biography history bibliography church fathers


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