Author: Jortin, John.
Title: Remarks on Ecclesiastical History.
Description: London: Printed for C. Davis in Holborn, R. Manby and H. Shute Cox on Ludgate-hill, and J. Whiston in Fleet-street, 1751. 1751. - Octavo, full brown calf rebacked with a modern calf spine. The covers are bumped, rubbed & scuffed with some small white stains to the front cover & with a small piece out of the leather at its bottom corner. lv & 388 pages. The pastedowns & endpapers are lightly stained & foxed & there is occasional light foxing to the text pages. 1 signature of the preliminaries is partially detached. Ex-library with an 1871 ink inscription presenting the volume to Keble College Library and the library's "Withdrawn" stamp on the front pastedown. Good.

First edition of the first volume of a work continued in five volumes through 1773.

John Jortin [1698-1770] was an English church historian and Christian humanist. He held various benefices and became Archdeacon of London in 1764. His five-volume "Remarks on Ecclesiastical History" [1751-1773] has been called "the most significant Anglican ecclesiastical history of the eighteenth century". Written from "a markedly latitudinarian perspective", it was well regarded by Gibbon. Good .

Keywords: RELIGION; CHRISTIANITY; CHRISTIAN CHURCH; ROMANS; ANCIENT ROME; REMARKS ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY; JOHN JORTIN; CHURCHMAN; HISTORIAN; CHRISTIAN HUMANIST; AUTHOR; PROTESTANT; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 18TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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