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Vita Johannis Barwick S.T.P.
172130780Londini 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; 6646444pp.; 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.<br /> <br /> Posthumously-published biography of the late Dean of St. Paul's John Barwick 1612-1664 by his brother Peter 1619-1705. "Begun 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.<br /> <br /> ESTC T088503. Typis Gulielmi Bowyer unknown
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