Religion and politics in 17th-century England Collection of treatises including: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes's Book, entitled Leviathan. Oxford: at the Theater, 1676. Second edition (same year as the first), 4to (19 x 13cm), old marbled boards, rebacked, engraved frontispiece and title vignette, engraved headpieces and initials, ownership inscription 'Tho. Morgan' (identified in pencilled note as the deist pamphleteer, d.1743), contemporary marginalia throughout (shaved), damp-staining to front, ink-stain to foot of frontispiece and title-page, quire 2C-2L stained, final blank discarded [ESTC R12286; Wing C4421]; Prynne, William. The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes. London: for Michael Sparke Senior, 1643. First edition, 4 parts in 1 volume, 4to (22.2 x 16.2cm), modern half calf, browning and damp-staining, part 1 B2-3 with closed tears, marginal worming towards end of part 1 and beginning of part 2, part 2 with additional 'To the reader' leaf signed A2 bound after title-page (A1) as noted in ESTC, errata leaf discarded [ESTC R203193; Wing P4087A]; Abbot, Robert. A Defence of the Reformed Catholicke of M. W. Perkins, lately Deceased, against the Bastard Counter-Catholicke of D. Bishop, Seminary Priest. The First Part. London: Thomas Adams, 1611. Second edition, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, gilt arabesque to covers, bound with an incomplete copy the second part, first edition, 1607 (ending at p. 640) [ESTC 100535; STC 48.5]; [Hammond, Henry]. Of the Power of the Keyes: or, of Binding and Loosing. London: Richard Royston, 1647. First edition, 4to (18.8 x 13cm), modern half calf, title-page in red and black, Greek and Hebrew types, initial and final blanks apparently original, contemporary annotation to contemporary binder's blank (recording the purchase of three books by Hammond, 'Spelmans larger history of tithes' and 'Hookers 6th & 8th bookes', with the cost of binding), contemporary marginalia, browning, shallow chip to upper fore corner of first few leaves including title [ESTC R201891; Wing H567]; Birckbek, Simon. The Protestants Evidence, ... shewing that for Fifteene Hundred Yeares next after Christ, Divers Worthy Guides of Gods Church, have in Sundry Weightie Poynts of Religion, taught as the Church of England now doth. London: Robert Mibourne, 1635. Second edition, 4to (21.2 x 15.5cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, initial blank, terminal licence leaf, damp-staining, closed tear through D3, [ESTC S102067; STC 3083]; Croft, Herbert. The Legacy of the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford: to his Diocess [sic]. Or a Short Determination of all Controversies we have with the Papists, by Gods Holy Word. London: Charles Harper, 1679. First edition, 4to (19.5 x 14.5cm), modern quarter leather, imprimatur leaf, advertisement leaf [ESTC R1143; Wing C6966]; Stillingfleet, Edward. Irenicum. A Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds. Or the Divine Right of Particular Forms of Church Government. London: by R. W. for Henry Mortlock, 1662. Second edition, 4to (19.3 x 13cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and relined, Hebrew types, browning, small tear to foot of Y2 costing a few letters, quire 3C misbound but all present [ESTC R16898; Wing S5597B]; Sadler, John. Rights of the Kingdom, or Customs of our Ancestors. Touching the Duty, Power, Election, or Succession of our Kings and Parliaments. London: J. Kidgell, 1682. Second edition, 4to (20.3 x 14.8cm), modern marbled boards [ESTC R11835; Wing S279]; and 16 others (these not collated), 17th and 18th century, including: Mathias Prideaux, An Easy and Compendious Introduction for Reading all Sorts of Histories, Oxford, 1650 (second edition, 4to, modern calf); John Smith (1618-1652), Select Discourses, 1660 (first edition, 4to, modern calf); White Kennett, The Case of Impropriations, and of the Augmentation of Vicarages, 1704 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked); The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by Himself, 1792 (fourth edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, folding frontispiece, bookplate of Admiral Nugent); Thomas Birch, The Life of Henry Prince of Wales, 1760 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled sheep, rebacked); Christopher Hildyard, The Antiquities of York City, 1719 (first edition, 8vo, marbled boards, rebacked, light worming); and similar (most evidently defective, including: Francis Bacon, A Wise and Moderate Discourse, concerning Church-Affaires, 1641, first edition, lacking D2-3; Sir Percy Herbert, Certaine Conceptions, or Considerations upon the Strange Change of Peoples Dispositions and Actions in these Latter Times, c.1650-2, first edition, issue unknown, 4to, contemporary sheep, rebacked, lacking most of title-page; Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem, 1625, lacking a4, crude repairs; and more) (24)

Note: This is one of two editions of the pseudonymous Anatomy of the Service Book dated by Wing to 1641, the other with the spelling 'Anatomie'. Wing attributes the work to John Bernard. Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).