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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. COLLATION: A-B4 C-F8 G-Q4, COMPLETE. [2], 19-176 pp. Attractive half calf antique, marbled boards, red morocco label gilt, compartments gilt with small tools. FIRST EDITION of this important collection of Parliamentary debates, providing original and valuable documentation of the constitutional crisis that ensued during the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II of England (a.k.a. James VII of Scotland), while fleeing to France, dropped the Great Seal of the Realm into the Thames. In Parliament the question was discussed whether he had forfeited the throne or had abdicated. The present volume offers detailed arguments for the both, but ultimately the latter designation was agreed upon, and in a full assembly of the Lords and Commons, it was resolved in spite of James's protest "that King James II having endeavored to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant." The Scottish parliament pronounced a decree of forfeiture and deposition. In our copy the imprint reads "and to be sold" (in another issue the imprint reads "and sold"). References: Wing (2nd ed.) E1288A. ESTC R14958. Provenance: the Sunderland copy (sale of the Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana, Puttick & Simpson, 1882, Fourth Portion, lot 9338) -- subsequently in the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary) with blindstamps. NB: in 1976 a collection of more than 200,000 books from the Hartford Seminary Library were sold to Emory University, including this one --> deaccessioned from Pitts Theology Library.

The Seconds Edition Corrected. London. Printed: And Sold by John Morphew, near Stationer's Hall, MDCCX. [1710] 59 pages. 5.25" x 8.25" Now in recent wraps. The 59 pages seem to have been disbound from a larger volume the spine is backed in leather with raised cords but there are no endpapers. The whole is glued into faded red wraps, but has now come unglued except for page 59 itself which remains glued in the wraps, separated from the rest of the text. Pages good and clean, naturally faded from age, but without foxing, stains, or undue discoloration. Wide margins. A significant debate in Parliament, held very shortly before the crowning of William and Mary, reexamining the monarchy in the long wake of the Civil War. Rights of citizens and rights of leadership. This copy in plainest of wraps, well preserved. The first edition appeared more than a decade before this printing.

12mo, 15.5cm, third edition, [ii],92,[2](contents table],p., in contemporary slightly speckled full calf, real raised bands, no title stamping, top and bottom split at the hinge, text sound, the front board is cupped on the outer edges, publisher guards at the front and final leaves as issued, the half title and the recto, identifies this as "A Supplement To the Crisis, Written by Mr. Steele. "; verso being an ad for this book, the first and final leaves are slightly dust worn, the is over wise bright, clear and sound, the text is slightly wrinkled from excess hunidity but not damp stained, good to very good, rare (Ho2.1). - No auction records or listings located. ~ ESTC T170470, citing 3 locations only in the U.K. (Victoria & Albert Mus., Cambridge, and Univ. of Manchester); the NUC records three editions under "Great Britain. Parliament, 1689". The 5 copies of this edition located in the NUC (L.of C., Harvard, Univ. of Ill., NYP and Univ. of Chicago) do not have the initial leaf, nor do the 3 copies in the ESTC. ~ The book relates to the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 and the coming to England of William of Orange and Mary at the invitation of certain nobles unhappy with the accession to the throne of James II. It includes a lengthy exchange of opinions regarding the politics and government of England, and the questions that surrounded the various theories of succession. Steele carried on a celebrated political controversy with Jonathan Swift, the chief Tory spokesman, in 1713, during the course of which he wrote his pamphlet "The Crisis". He presumably had this work, which was first published in 1695 and again in 1710, republished in 1714 in order to support his own opinions.