1641 Prynne’s The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie

Description: The Antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, an historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, British, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civil dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages The first part; [With:] The second part, William Prynne, Printed by Authority for Michael Sparke Senior, London, 1641, later bindings, Vol I: 7.5 x 5.5” , Vol II: 7 x 5.25”, 12mo. In as-is condition. Binding copies. Ex-library of Bicknell University. Both volumes have both front and rear boards are detached. Flaking and moderate wear to boards overall. Interiors exhibit light wear and toning. Armorial bookplates on rear of title pages. Free of known markings. Gilt top edges. Worthy of being rebound as these are rather important works. Please see photos. First edition, one of numerous issues in this year, this with ‘oppressions, & anti-monarchical practices’ in the titles, as opposed to the reverse. Prynne’s pamphlet, written during the anti-Laudian controversy of the Root and Branch Petition of 1641, was a “watershed in his career. For the first time in his writing he attacked all bishops, and argued for the destruction of episcopacy” Prynne (1600-1669) was an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church political under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-1645). His views were Presbyterian, but he became known in the 1640’s as an Erastian, arguing for overall state control of religious matters. RAREB1641KTVN

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