Author: Edward Earl of Clarendon
Title: Religion and Policy and the Countenance and Assistance Each Should Give to the Other. With a Survey of the Power and Jurisdiction of the Pope in the Dominions of Other Princes
Description: Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1811 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of the Earl of Clarendon's posthumously published discussion of papal powers, complete in two volumes. The two volume first edition of Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon's final work.Bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards. Bound with half titles, retaining the original endpaper. Complete in two volumes. Within these volumes the statesman, politician and historian discusses the history of the growth of papal temporal power, and 'papal usurpation of Supremacy', voicing his alarm at papal attempts to remove authority from kings. Hyde structures his work chronologically, beginning with the first three popes to the start of volume I, and concluding with a discussion of Clement X to the close of volume II. With portrait frontispiece to volume I.With an Index to the rear of volume II.  Bound in the publisher's original paper-covered boards. With half titles and endpapers retained. Externally, sound, with rubbing, heavier to the joints. Loss to the head of each spine. Joints are cracked with boards tenderly held. Light spots and general soiling to boards and spine. Spots to endpapers and fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot, mainly to the first and last pages. Many pages remain unopened, particularly to volume II. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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