"An Exposition of the Creed", by John, Lord Bishop of Chester. The Eighth Edition Revised and Corrected. LONDON. Printed for C. Griffin and Sam. and Will. Keble, and are to be sold at the Turk's-Head in Fleet-street, 1704.

John Pearson, Lord Bishop of Chester, "An Exposition of the Creed", An early printing of one of the most influential Works in the Anglican Church with the frontispiece portrait by David Loggan engraved by Willem the Elder.

Frontispiece portrait of Bishop John Pearson is a genuine copper engraving by Willem the Elder (Dutch, 1652-1719) after David Loggan (1635-1692); marked "D.Loggan dellin: W. Elder sculp:" line engraving, 7" x 11" (size of entire plate- 8" x 12.1/2").

Hard boards, leather (a few small leather damages, leather repaired corner of the front board); FOLIO (8" x 13"); 398 pages on high quality laid paper, title page is printed on royal watermarked paper (crowned lion in decorated circle); the frontispiece and title page are decorated by red frames, just a very few stains, very good condition.

David Loggan (Danzig, 1634-1692, London) was an English baroque engraver, draughtsman, and painter.
The young David first studied in Danzig under Willem Hondius, and later in Amsterdam under Crispijn van de Passe II. He moved to London in the late 1650s. There he produced various engravings, among them the title-page for the folio "Book of Common Prayer" (1662). In addition, he did a number of miniature portraits as plumbago drawings.

He married in 1663, and in 1665 moved from London to Nuffield, Oxfordshire, to avoid the Great Plague. In 1669, Loggan was appointed "public sculptor" to the University of Oxford. Then he proceeded to draw and engrave all the Oxford colleges in bird's-eye views. His folio "Oxonia illustrata" was published in 1675.

In 1675, Loggan was naturalized as an English subject. That year he once again settled in London, living in Leicester Fields, where he let rooms to aristocratic patrons and acted as their agent in the acquisition of works of art.

From 1676 he was involved in preparing the new folio "Cantabrigia illustrata", which was eventually published in 1690. In that year he was made engraver to Cambridge University.

More than 100 of his portraits are held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Elder (active 1680-1700), was a Scottish engraver who worked in London, where he was employed mainly by booksellers.

Reference:Two copies of this engraving, one complete and one trimmed to design, are located in the Scottish Portrait Gallery [#EP II 153.1 and #UP P 14], one copy of this engraving is located in the British Museum London, [acquisition number P,5. 155]

John Pearson, Bishop of Chester 1672/1686. English theologian and scholar. He was a royalist chaplain (1645) in the civil war, but during Cromwell's regime he lived quietly in London. His "Exposition of the Creed" (1659), based on sermons he delivered at St. Clement's, Eastcheap, reveals Pearson's remarkable knowledge, especially of the Church Fathers; with many notes, it has long been a standard work. After the Restoration, Pearson became master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1660), Margaret professor of divinity (1661), master of Trinity College (1662), and bishop of Chester (1673). His Vindiciae epistolarum S. Ignatii (1672), defending the genuineness of the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch, was later confirmed.

John Pearson was born at Great Snoring, Norfolk. From Eton he passed to Queens' College, Cambridge, and was elected a scholar of King's in April 1632, and a fellow in 1634. On taking orders in 1639 he was collated to the Salisbury prebend of Nether-Avon. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the lord-keeper Finch, by whom he was presented to the living of Thorington in Suffolk. In the Civil War he acted as chaplain to George Goring's forces in the west.

In 1654, he was made weekly preacher at St Clement's, Eastcheap, in London. With Peter Gunning he disputed against two Roman Catholics on the subject of schism, a one-sided account of which was printed in Paris by one of the Roman Catholic disputants, under the title Scisme Unmask't (1658). Pearson also argued against the Puritan party, and was much interested in Brian Walton's polyglot Bible.

In 1659, he published in London his celebrated "Exposition of the Creed", dedicated to his parishioners of St Clement's, Eastcheap, to whom the substance of the work had been preached several years before. In the same year he published the Golden Remains of the ever-memorable Mr John Hales of Eton, with an interesting memoir. Soon after the Restoration he was presented by Juxon, Bishop of London, to the rectory of St Christopher-le-Stocks; and in 1660 he was created doctor of divinity at Cambridge, appointed a royal chaplain, prebendary of Ely, archdeacon of Surrey, and master of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1661 he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity; and on the first day of the ensuing year he was nominated one of the commissioners for the review of the liturgy in the conference held at the Savoy.There he won the esteem of his opponents and high praise from Richard Baxter. On April 14, 1662 he was made master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1667 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1672 he published at Cambridge Vindiciae epistolarum S. Ignatii, in 4to, in answer to Jean Daille. His defence of the authenticity of the letters of Ignatius has been confirmed by JB Lightfoot and other recent scholars. Upon the death of John Wilkins in 1672, Pearson was appointed to the bishopric of Chester. In 1682 his Annales cyprianici were published at Oxford, with John Fell's edition of that father's works.

He died at Chester on the 16th of July 1686. His last work, the "Two Dissertations on the Succession and Times of the First Bishops of Rome", formed with the Annales Paulini the principal part of his Opera posthuma, edited by Henry Dodwell in 1688. See the memoir in 'Biographia Britannica', and another by Edward Churton, prefixed to the edition of "Pearson's Minor Theological Works" (2 vols., Oxford, 1844).

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