Three works (uniformly bound) written against Stillingfleet, viz. To Katholiko [Greek] Stillingfleeton. Or, An account given to a Catholick Friend, of Dr. Stillingfleets late book against the Roman Church. Together with a short Postil upon his Text, in three Letters, by I.V.C. [John Vincent Canes]

[Bruges] Printed by Luke Kerchove, 1672. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vO, 143 x 87 mms., pp. [xviii], 80, 42, 32, 102. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: [SERGEANT (John)]: Errour Non-plust, Or, Dr. Stillingfleet Shown to be The Man of No Principles. With An Essay how Discourses concerning Catholic Grounds bear the Highest Evidence. [London] Printed in the Year 1673. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 143 x 87 mms., pp. [xvi], 144, 153 - 272. With the contemporary autograph "Tho. Browne" [almost certainly NOT the Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)] and the later 18th century autograph "W. Waring" on the title-page. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH: [WARNER (John)]: Dr. Stillingfleet still against Dr. Stillingfleet: or The Examination of Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet Examined. By J. W. [?Paris], Printed in the Year 1775. 8vo, pp. [xviii], 279 [280 blank]. With the 18th century autograph "W. Waring" on the title-page, and an early annotation by the author's initials, "Addenda to Ch/ iii. o. p. 4." 3 volumes, uniformly bound in early 18th century calf, gilt spines, red morocco labels; some chips to tops and bases of spine, but generally a very good and attractive, if made-up, set. With a steel-engraved bookplate by Perkins and Heath of a lion couchant guardant in a circle of ornaments surmounted by a crown (?marquess) and on top of a horse and knight in armour. Edward Stillingfleet (`1635 - 1699) seems to have had a gift for controversy. The first volume, by Canes, is a reply to Stillingfleet's polemical A Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practiced in the Church of Rome (1671); the second, by Sergeant, to "Faith of Protestants Reduced to Principles" (title given in ESTC; not traced in Stilligfleet's separate works); and the third, by Warner, to Several Conferences Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome (1679).