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WALTON, Izaak [1593-1683]. The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop of Lincoln. To which is added, some short Tracts or Cases of Conscience, written by the said Bishop. Printed for Richard Marriott, London, 1678.

Price: US$227.44 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Octavo. Pp. [238] Life, [2], 1-45, [1], [2], 47-84, [2], 87-167, [1], [14], 169-253, [1], [2], 255-276. Copper-engraved frontis portrait, separate titles for 5 additional tracts, all dated 1678. 19th century speckled calf binding, morocco label, gilt, marbled endpapers, citron edges. Extremites rubbed, front joint tender and starting to split at lower end, title a little dusty with minor offsetting from portrait, neat ink signature on front endpaper, but overall a nice copy. The First Edition of the last of Walton's Lives to be published. Wing 667, Pforzheimer 1053.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

WALTON, Izaak. The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln.. Printed for Richard Marriott, London, 1678.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Description: [240]; [2], 45, [3], 47-167, [15], 169-253, [3], 255-276pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Later calf, stamped in gilt and blind, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Minor shelf-wear. Armorial bookplate to FEP of Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, marquess of Crewe (1858-1945), politician and sometime secretary of state to India, contemporary manuscript pagination to the majority of leaves, manuscript index of 'Names in the life of Bp Sanderson' to rear endpapers. Robert Sanderson, (1587-1663), Bishop of Lincoln. Although ignored by Walton in this book, Sanderson was a doctrinal Calvinist, who shared many beliefs with the Puritans. Like many bishops of his age, he was involved in the English Civil War, in 1644 briefly taken prisoner by the Parliamentarians, and in 1646 he went to Oxford to take up the regius professorship of divinity to which the king had appointed him in on 1 July 1642. The following year he wrote most of the university's negative response to the Long Parliament's demand that its members take the covenant and accept the new religious order. Deprived of his professorship in June 1648, he was permitted by the House of Commons to attend the king on the Isle of Wight. ESTC R8226, Wing W667. Size: 8vo

Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom

WALTON, Izaak.. The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln . to which is added, some short Tracts or Cases of Conscience, written by the said Bishop .. London, Printed for Richard Marriott. 1678., 1678.

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Description: 8vo., pp. [240]; [2], 45, [3], 47-167, [15], 169-253, [3], 255-276; with engraved portrait of Robert Sanderson by R. White and the errata leaf o8; a very good, large copy in contemporary calf, joints cracked; ownership inscription to title of John Richard Saunderson, nineteenth-century bookplates of the Saunderson family, from collateral branches to that of Bishop Sanderson.First edition, the last of Walton's five celebrated Lives.Wing W 667; Pforzheimer 1053. Language: English

Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Walton, Izaak. The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop f Lincoln. To Which is Added, some Short Trackts or Cases of Conscience, Written by the Said Bishop. For Richard Marriott, London, 1678.

Price: US$618.00 + shipping

Description: Small Octavo. Engraved portrait frontispiece by R[obert]. White, [A1-A2]A3-A8, a-o8, [A1]c8, [D1]-T4. Four separate title pages all dated 1678. N3 signed B3, two parts in one. Walton was the author of The Compleat Angler, one of the most important environmental books in history. He later would publish a biography of his fishing buddy and friend John Donne after he died in 1631. The Life and Death of Dr. Donne was published in 1640. He had later written a few other biographies. The present work would be the last of his biographies. A handsome copy bound in a later full paneled calf, corner flourishes in gilt, raised bands, lettering gilt, compartments stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, inner gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, occasional spots of scattered foxing mostly to plates, rear hinges weakening somewhat. Very nice.

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.