[Rarebooks] FS - Oxford Movement

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*[Members of the University of Oxford] John Henry Newman, Edward 
Bouverie Pusey, John Keble, Gerard Manley Hopkins et al. /TRACTS FOR THE 
TIMES/*/./ J. G. & F. Rivington, London. 1834 to 1845. A complete six 
volume octavo set, volumes one to five bound uniformly in half leather 
over marbled boards, and the final volume bound in a different style 
(i.e. different in appearance from the preceding five volumes) but still 
in half leather over marbled boards.

"Tracts for the Times" was a very important publication of 88 tracts, or 
printed arguments, which appeared between 1834 to 1840, with a 
supplemental volume containing the final two tracts appearing in 1842. 
It was published in England by a group of High Church Anglicans, 
sometimes referred to jointly as the "Oxford Movement", whose members 
included John Henry Newman (who was the principal contributor), John 
Keble, Henry Edward Manning, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Richard Hurrell 
Froude and Robert Wilberforce. They were also known as "Tractarians" due 
to their contributions to this publication.
They sought to demonstrate that the Church of England was an orthodox 
descendant of the Roman Catholic church established by the Old and New 
Testament apostles.

This offering consists of the first five volumes, containing the 
unsigned tracts 1 through 88, and bound uniformly in quarter leather 
over marbled boards. The sixth volume in not titled, except on the spine 
("Tract 90 & Pamphlets / 1845"). It contains John Henry Newman's famous 
"Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles" which is dated 
1841 and identified as the "Fourth Edition", and which presaged his 
conversion to Roman Catholicism. Also contained in this volume are 
thirteen other pamphlets or broadsides, most dated 1845 and published by 
various publishers. The pamphlets, ranging in length from 10 to 70, or 
more pages, defend or challenge the positions taken in the "Tracts". 
Authors include Rev. W. G. Ward , William Winstanley Hull, Richard 
Clarke Sewell, Rev. Frederick D. Maurice, Henry Arthur Woodgate, Rev. 
James Garbett, Rev. E. M. Goulburn, and Christopher Benson.

The first five volumes are generally in good, tight,condition showing 
some wear to boards and foxing to pages (mainly to preliminary pages). 
The binding of sixth volume is somewhat the worse for wear, the spine 
leather being partially detached, but the contents are clean and tight. 
The price is for the set of six and is a special price to this list.

 $500.00.

Terms of sale - the price is net in USD. Payment by check or credit 
card. Packing and postage charge for the six volumes will be $15 in 
North America; $25 overseas. Returnable within seven days of receipt if 
not as described.

 
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