Author: Hooker, Richard
Title: The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, compleated out of his own Manuscripts with several other Treatises by the Same Author, and an Account of his Life and Death
Publication Information: London: Printed for R. Scot, J. Basset, J. Wright and R. Chiswell, 1676
Call #: BV649 .H8 1676
Book Size: 36.5 cm (H); 24 cm (L); 4.5 cm (spine)
Cover: leather; design onspine, floral, not gilt
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: engraved frontispiece
Comments:
- title page in red and black ink
- dedicated to Charles II (and note title page: "dedicated to the king's most excellent majesty Charles II by whose Royal father (near his Maryrdom) the former Five Books (then only extant) were commended to His Dear Children, as an excellent means to satisfie Private Scruples, nd Settle the Publick Peace of this Church and Kingdom")
- Epistle to the King - by "Joh. Exon"
- To the Reader"
- copy of a letter by Henry Chicester (Lord Bishop) to Mr. [Isaac] Walton
- includes The Life of Richard Hooker
- includes Appendix to the life of Richard Hooker
- includes George Cranmer's letter unto Mr. Richard Hooker
- includes Hooker's Epistle Dedicatory to the Archbishop of Canterbury
- includes Preface on the Reformation of the Laws and Orders Ecclesiastical in the Church of England
- "What Things Are Handled in the Following Book" (as opposed to "Table of Contents")
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 17th-century British Text Production
- British Theology
- Dedications
- Biography
- Reprint Culture
