Author: Joseph Hall
Title: The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of Joseph Hall, D.D. Late Lord Bishop of Norwich. With Some Specialities of Divine Providence in His Life.
Description: London, Printed by J. Cadwel for J. Crooke, 1660. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce collection of the works of theologian, moralist and satirist Bishop Hall. With a folding frontispiece portrait of the author. The scarce first edition of this posthumously published collection of many of the works of the English bishop, satirist and moralist, Joseph Hall.Illustrated with a folding engraved portrait frontispiece.Published for years after Hall's death, among the works of the celebrated theologian present here are critical 'The Womens[sic] Vail: or a Discourse Concerning the Necessity, or Expedience of the Close-Covering of the Heads of Women .. Occasioned by an offence unjustly taken at a Modest Dresse', and the autobiographical 'Observations Of some Specialties of Divine Providence in the Life of Jos. Hall, Bishop of Norwich&apos.ESTC reference no. R10352Collated, complete: [2], a-b4, A-H4, A-3D4Despite the pagination, the text is continuous.With a leaf of advertisements to the rear, and the bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of the University of Oxford, to the front pastedown.A scarce work containing a wealth of the writings of this literary pioneer, praised by Thomas Fuller as 'our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style&apos. Rebound in full calf, with endpapers renewed. Light fading to back strip, with minor rubbing to rear joint. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages significantly age toned due to paper type, with spotting and handling marks throughout. The odd ink annotation to margins. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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