The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History containing The Life and death of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's time, to this present Age, the Lives of Many Eminent Christians etc Hardcover - 1675

Printed for Tho. Sawbridge and Will. Birch, London, 1675. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Containing the Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's Time to This Present Age, the Lives of Many Eminent Christians which have lived from the Primitive Times to the Present Age, the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Sovereign Princes and the Lives of Christians of an Inferior Rank. Printed for Sawbridge and Will. Birch in 1675. Bound in full leather with light decoration, banded spine, marbled end-papers. In one volume but with two parts separately paginated. The first part in two sections - Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ followed by The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's time. The second part has a separate title-page for The Lives of Many Eminent Christians Which Have Lived from the Primitive Times to the Present Age (stating it to be the 2nd edition) and is divided into two "Books" which are firstly the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Sovereign Princes and secondly the Lives of Christians of an Inferior Rank the, to this present Age. The title-page to the first part is missing but present are: the Author's Dedicatory Epistle to the Right Honourable Philip Lord Wharton, Baron of Wharton in the County of Westmorland And to the Lady Ann Wharton, His Pious and Vertuous Consort and dated "From My Study in Hammersmith" Aug 2 1675 (this epistle is detached, darkened and repaired at the bottom edge of the first page) (unpaginated, 3); the Author's Epistle to the Christian Reader dated 1649, (2); To the Christian Reader from Edmond Calamy (2); To the Christian Reader from Simeon Ash and John Wall, dated 1649 (4); Greek verse with decorated header (1); verses to Samuel Clark from John Fuller, Guiliem Jenkyn, Sam. Clark (father), and Jo. Clark (son) (3); A Table of Names of those Persons, whose Lives are contained in this First Part (2); A Table of the Persons whose Lives are Contained in the First part set down Alphabetically (2); The Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1-27pp; introductory paragraphs, errata and books printed by this author (1); The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines From Christ's Time to This Present Age, illustrated with portraits, 504 pp. The reverses of pages 123 and 126 are incorrectly numbered as 224 and 225 but the text follows, similarly the reverses of pages 163 and 166 are numbered as 284 and 285, pages 171-174 are incorrectly numbered as pages 191-194, pages 180-181 are incorrectly numbered as pages 200/201, page 205 follows page 184, pages 175-179 are between pages 194 and 200, these are printing rather than binding errors, the text follows throughout. There are discrete paper repairs to a tear on page 377/378. The second part contains: A Table of all the Principal things contained in the Lives of the Fathers and latter Divines (4); Title page for the Second Part, Book 1; the Epistle to the reader (2); verses etc. to S Clark (4); The Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Soveraign Princes, 116pp; An Alphabetical Table of all the chief things contained in this first part of the Second Volume (4); Title Page of the Second Part, Book 2 and Second part, 104pp, Table to Second part (4) - pages are torn across about two-thirds of the way down and the lower parts of both of theses pages are missing. Full leather with worn corners and small amounts of loss at spine ends and short tears in leather on rear, marbled end-papers, the internal front joint is wholly split and the internal rear joint is cracked but held by cords, the covers are firmly attached to the spine. The internal binding is sound except as noted, the pages are a little darkened. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70112060085. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional shipping charges..