Vita Johannis Barwick, S.T.P...

  • Londini [London]: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1721
By Peter Barwick; George Vertue [engravings]
Londini [London]: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1721. Very Good-. Londini [London]: Typis Gilielmi Bowyer, 1721. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); contemporary paneled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled; [66],464,[44]pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates including one other portrait and a folding table. Leather quite scuffed and rather dried, joints rubbed with exposure of spine chords, spine gilt mostly effaced, 20th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Preliminary text includes the extensive list of subscribers.

Posthumously-published biography of the late Dean of St. Paul's John Barwick (1612-1664) by his brother Peter (1619-1705). "[B]egun in 1671, [Vita] was clearly intended as more than simply a memoir of Barwick's brother; it is perhaps better understood as a statement of his own commitment and lifelong zeal for the restored Anglican church and its royal head" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

ESTC T088503.

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