SERMONS PREACHED UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS Hardcover - 1715

Exeter Exchange: Printed for Daniel Browne By J. Darby and Others, 1715. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition Corrected. 8vo (13 X 21cm). pp. xi, 403. General title page, contents list. Fine contemporary binding of panelled calf (speckled) with five raised bands to the spine, gilt ownership stamp of I. Phelipps Y to the front panel. Red title label to the spine. Binding very good and strong, short crack to head of the rear joint, corners worn. Contents clean and tight, signed Phelipps Yovill 1763 to the front pastedown, no rear free endpaper, no foxing. A very good copy. Provenance: from Newton Surmaville in Somerset. This house was originally bought by Robert Harbin, a mercer of Blandford in 1608 from Joseph Compton. Robert Harbin rebuilt the house, completed in 1612. The house had remained in the family until 2007 when the last member of the family Sophia Wyndham died aged 97. The contents of the house were also sold in 2007, including the library which had remained untouched for hundreds of years. Many of the volumes of classics, theology and history belonged to the Rev. John Phelipps (second son of Edward Phelipps of Montacute). Vicar of Yeovil. 1756-66 and bear his gilt bookstamp, as is the case with this book..