Author: Alfred Owen Legge
Title: The Growth of the Temporal Power of the Papacy: A Historical Review, with Observations Upon the 'Council of the Vatican'
Description: London, Macmillan, 1870. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 316p; 16p ads in back. A red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Speckly stains on front cover, light scuffs on the back, and edges of boards wearing through in several spots. Light foxing, speckling, and owner's notations on front and back endpapers. Small closed tears (less than half an inch long) in margins of pages 289-308. Main text unmarked, though pages are lightly age-toned. The binding is tight. Anti-Catholic book attacking the political ambitions of the papacy and critiquing the decree of infallibility promulgated at the First Vatican Council. Good .

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