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Saravia, Hadrian.
A Treatise on the Different Degrees of the Christian Priesthood.
Publisher: John Henry Barker, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1840
Stock Code: 15434
First edition thus of the translation by Alfred Wallis Street, after the text of the second edition of 1610. Duodecimo, pp., xxxi, 276, [4] (publisher’s advertisements). Publisher’s original diaper-grain emerald cloth; titled in gilt to spine; Rococo-style panel design in blind to boards; citron end-papers. Contemporary ownership inscription of one ‘J. P. Parkinson’ in ink to front free end-paper dated 1845. Contemporary bookseller’s label of W. Edwards of Louth to front paste-down. Spine sunned; light mottling to edges of boards; corners bumped; binding otherwise strong and square. Occasional spotting to contents. A very good copy. A translation of Protestant theologian Hadrian Saravia’s (1532-1612) exposition on the English clergy. This book, a defence of episcopacy against Presbyterian, was controversial at the time it was published, but ultimately earned the theologian his DD at Oxford. £80.00