(CHURCH OF ENGLAND). SEABURY, Samuel, the Reverend.
The continuity of the Church of England in the sixteenth century: two discourses: with an appendix and notes...
New York: Pudney & Russell, 1853.
8vo, pp. x, 174, [2] (errata). Original publishers' blindstamped brown cloth. Cloth splitting at joints, some loss to head and foot of spine. Early ownership inscription. A good copy.
First edition of a work "designed to explain and defend the position of the Church of England, so far as it involves that of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States" (Preface). Seabury was of a dynasty of American protestant churchmen: his grandfather (also Samuel) had been the first American Episcopal bishop.
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5 July 2008