Entered by Jefferson on the undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
2/-.
Nathaniel Bacon, 1593-1660, the half-brother of Sir Francis Bacon, was Master of Requests to the Protector. Owing to its spirit of hostility
to the claims of the royal prerogative this work was suppressed immediately after publication. The edition here described
was secretly issued in 1672. Later editions were represented as having been compiled by Bacon from the notes of John Selden.
See the next entry.
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J. 158
Bacon on the government of England.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 414, as above.
BACON,
Nathaniel.
An historical and political discourse of the laws & government of England, from the first times to the end of the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. With a vindication of the ancient way of Parliaments in England, collected from some manuscript notes of
John Selden, Esq; by Nathaniel Bacon of Grays Inn, Esquire.
London, printed for
John Starkey, and are to be sold by
J. Robinson,
R. Bentley,
Jacob Tonson,
T. Goodwin, and
T. Fox,
1689.
JN117 .B22
Another edition of the previous entry. Folio. 2 parts in 1 with continuous signatures, separate pagination, 214 leaves: [
]
2, b-c
4, B
2, C-Z
4, Aa-Dd
4, [ ]
1, Ee
1, Ff-Zz
4, Aaa-Ggg
4. The unsigned leaf is for the title of the
Continuation of the historical & political discourse, the following leaf, marked Ee, contains the
Contents and ends with the catchword
A. The next page begins with the word
The.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 83, 8.
STC S2428 (under Selden).
Original calf, rebacked with new endpapers, and the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T.
This edition was issued in 1682, which is the date on the imprint of the separate titles to each part, suppressed and reissued
in 1689 with this new title-page, representing the work as having been collected by Bacon from notes of John Selden. On the
verso of the first leaf (otherwise blank) is the Advertisement of John Starkey, the publisher, dated January the 10th, 1688/9,
giving the history of the book. This advertisement ends:
It was well known to, and owned by, the late Lord Chief Justice Vaughan, who was one of the Executors of the Great and Learned
Mr. Selden, that the Ground-work was his, upon which Mr. Bacon raised this Superstructure.
The Short Title Catalogue lists this book under Selden in volume III, which volume has not been issued at the time of going
to press.
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J. 159
Ellis’s tracts on liberty.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 383, as above.
ELLYS,
Anthony.
Tracts on the liberty, spiritual and temporal, of Protestants in England. Addressed to J. N. Esq; at Aix-la-Chapelle. In two
parts. By Anthony Ellys, D.D. late Lord Bishop of St. David’s. A new edition.
London: printed for
J. Whiston and
B. White, and
S. Hooper,
mdcclxvii
. [1767.]
BV629 .E6
4to. 2 parts in 1 with separate signatures and continuous pagination. 154 and 136 leaves, the last with the publishers’ advertisements.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903; with the original marbled edges. Initialled by Jefferson at
sig. I and T.
Anthony Ellys, 1690-1761, Bishop of St. Davids, and chaplain to Lord Chancellor Macclesfield. This was a posthumous publication; the first
part, a polemic against popery, was first published in 1763, and the second, a treatise on constitutional liberty, in 1765.
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