W s elkanah settle (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Letter to Mr. Settle, occasioned by his Late Famous Recanting and Plot-ridiculing Narrative. [London]: Printed and sold by N[athaniel]. T[hompson]. At the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden near Chearing-Cross, 1683. The volume paginates: [2], 14 p. The volume collates: [A]1, B-D2, F1. Wing S196 Pamphlet uncut as issued with wide margins. Leaves are generally clean with the odd stain and mark. Old folds. Please see the slideshow on our website in order to gain a better appreciation of the contents and condition. The pamphlet measures 315 x 208 mm. Determined, at least, not to lose by politics, Settle, upon the dissolution of the Oxford parliament, promptly recanted, and wrote A Narrative of the Popish Plot, 1683, fol., exposing the perjuries of Doctor Oates, and covering with abuse Shaftesbury and his old associates at the Green Ribbon Club. Written with a clever assumption of fairness, the Narrative evoked a cloud of answers and letters', such as 'A Letter to Mr. Settle'. …