
ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY
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SERMONS - SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HALL (JOSEPH) The Righteous Mammon: An Hospitall-Sermon.. in Easter-weeks 1618; bound with 7 others, 8vo
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
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SERMONS - SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
HALL (JOSEPH) The Righteous Mammon: An Hospitall-Sermon.. in Easter-weeks 1618, lower fore-corner of title torn away [ESTC S2711], Edward Griffin for Nathaniell Butter, 1618; [An Holy Panegyrick. A Sermon... Upon the Anniversarie Solemnitie of the Happie Inauguration of Our Dead Soveraigne Lord King James, Mar. 24. 1613], lacks title, several seventeenth century annotations in the margins, including note concerning a sermon by "Mr. Green... Ffeb. 24 1647" [ESTC S122954], Samuel Macham, 1613; A Sermon Preached before his Maiestie... on Sunday Sept. 15. 1622, [ESTC S113020, 4 copies], J. Haviland, for N. Butter, 1622; The Great Impostor... Febr.2 1623, light dampstaining [ESTC S92840], J. Haviland, for H. Fetherstone, 1623; The Best Bargaine. A Sermon.. on Sunday, Sept. 21. 1623, some side-margins shaved [ESTC S124971, one copy only], J. Haviland, for H. Fetherstone, 1623; JACKSON (THOMAS) An Helpe to the Best Bargaine. A Sermon on Mat.13.46, [ESTC S101360, 5 copies], Nich. Okes, for Mat. Walbanke, 1624; HALL (JOSEPH) The True Peace-maker... September 19, 1624, light dampstaining, [ESTC 103756], J. Haviland, for N. Butter, 1624; [AILESBURY (THOMAS)] Christus Redivus: Or the First Fruits of Them that Sleepe, dampstaining [ESTC S105766, 2 copies only], G.E. for Leonard Becket, 1624, 8 works bound in 1 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, titles within woodcut decorative borders, all with some cropping, some text cropped, several ink annotations, contemporary blind-stamped calf, worn with small losses to extremities of spine, upper hinge cracked, 8vo
Footnotes
A bound volume of eight sermons, mostly by Joseph Hall, several with early ink annotations, commenting on the author's style; "His method doth all others excell/Wch teacheth pleasantly breefly and well", and "To ye learned and ingenious divine/ Mr ?D. Hall of his vowes Cent/me vow, and I breake, thou won'st/and dost fullfill/such is ye difference 'twixt/good and ill".
Provenance: William Brooke, seventeenth century ownership inscription on blank verso of titles to first and third works; John Gregg, early inscription on verso of title to third (crossed through) and fourth works.