[Rarebooks] FS: John Fluger: Exposition on Common-prayer Book

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Fludger, John (Fludyer). A CORRECT AND FAMILIAR EXPOSITION ON THE 
COMMON-PRAYER-BOOK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND COLLECTED FROM THE WORKS 
OF BISHOP SPARROW, BISHOP ANDREWS, BISHOP PEARSON, BISHOP BEVERIDGE 
... [ET AL.] ... THE WHOLE COMPILED BY DIVINES OF THE CHURCH OF 
ENGLAND. TO WHICH IS PREFIX'D A PREFACE, CONTAINING SOME REFLECTIONS 
ON THE DEISTICAL, ARIAN, AND SOCINIAN NOTIONS CONCERNING THE OBJECT 
OF WORSHIP; DISPLAYING THE NATURE OF PRAYER, AND EXPEDIENCY OF FORMS; 
AND VINDICATING THE SERVICE OF OUR CHURCH FROM THE POPULAR OBJECTIONS 
MADE AGAINST IT. London: Printed for the Compilers by Thomas Gardner, 
1739. Engraved frontis, xvi, 1140 pp. Folio (36 cm). Blue cloth. 
Second edition. A first edition, without the author's name, was 
published on 1735.

John Fludger or Fludyer (1712-73), he preferred the former, was a 
contemporary of Johnson at Pembroke, of whom Johnson later held a low 
opinion, calling him a "violent whig" and a low-church clergyman 
(Boswell, Life, II, p.444), though the Exposition is clearly aimed at 
the orthodox High Church with its attacks on "Deistical, Arian, and 
Socinian Notions concerning the Object of Worship" as well as its 
support of the Athanasian Creed. Scarce, OCLC, RLIN and BL show only 
3 copies of each edition.

Institutional bookplate noting the book was a gift of Michael J. 
O'Farrell, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, on the front 
pastedown with his bookplate on the first blank. Rebound nicely in 
blue cloth, accession numbers on spine, front blank and last leaf 
ragged at the edges, small tear to margins of b2 and x3, soiling to 
the edges, scattered foxing, some offsetting, and occasional light 
dampstain at the top or front edge, binding solid, leaves clean, a 
very good copy.   [26674]   $475

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