Author: FLEETWOOD (William):
Title: The Relative Duties of Parents and Children, Husbands and Wives, Masters and Servants, Consider'd in Sixteen Sermons: With Three more upon the Case of Self-Murther.
Description: London, Printed for Charles Harper..., 1705. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 193 x 111 mms., pp. [xii], 495 [496 adverts], slightly later panelled calf, spine ornately gilt in copartmens (but rubbed), red morocco label, slight wear to tops and bottoms of joints and spines, but a good to very good copy with the contemporary bookplate of John Ward. William Fleetwood (1656–1723), Bishop of Ely is probably best-known in the antiquarian book trade and among hiistoriams pf eocnomics for Chronicon Preciosum (1707), but this is both a book of sermons previously publlished separately and an early and a substantial contribution to works on the ethics of family life. The novels of Samuel Richardson are suffused with allusions to and manifestations of Fleetwood's assertions and commentaries; while Daniel Defoe's The Family Instructor takes up many of Fleetwood's themes.

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