Theology & the Theatre. Cambridge Platonists, Smith (Joh...

Hammer

£180

Theology & the Theatre. Cambridge Platonists, Smith (John, late Fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge) & Patrick (Simon), Select Discourses [...], As also a Sermon preached by Simon Patrick [...] at the Author's Funeral [...], first edition, London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden, 1660, split and loose gatherings, rebacked contemporary calf (chipped), 4to, Chillingworth (William), The Religion of Protestants, A Safe Way to Salvation [...], first edition, Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1638, repaired black-ruled title-page, occasional contemporary manuscript manicules, rebacked contemporary calf boards (chipped), 4to, [Patrick (Simon)], A Sermon Preached upon St. Peter's Day [...], first edition, London: Ric. Chiswell, 1687, first two gatherings stained, contemporaneous calf over marbled boards, 4to, Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlasting Rest, divisional titles only, of which the first part and its prelims are repaired and/or defective, the final leaf repaired, otherwise seemingly OK, cropped a trifle close in places, c. 1830 quarter-calf over marbled boards, red-stained edges, square 8vo, Plays, an early 18th century sammelband of four titles, comprising Rowe (Nicholas): The Tragedy of Jane Shore, presumably the first edition, [London, 1715], lacking all before B, [&] Ulysses, first edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1706; Cibber [(Colley)], The Double Gallant, first edition, London: Bernard Lintott, n.d. [1707]; [&] [Boyle (Charles)], As You Find it, first edition, London: R. Parker, 1703, defective, contemporaneous calf over marbled boards, upper-cover and recto pastedown with ink MS. contents, 4to, (5). 


Provenance: 1st: 1) Richard Dennis Hoblyn, 19th century armorial bookplate; 2) George Goyder, crested bookplate; 3) Peter A. Crofts label. 2nd: Peter A. Crofts, "Briar Patch", Elm, 20th century book label. 4th: Sarah Russell Pearce, 1904, ink MS. ownership inscription. 5th: Langham Rokeby Esqr., of Arthingworth, Northamptonshire, 18th century Chippendale armorial bookplate to pastedown.