[Rarebooks] fa: THE WORKS OF ROBERT HARRIS - PURITAN SERMONS - 1654

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Robert Harris: The Works of Robert Harris once of Hanwell, Now  
President of Trinity College in Oxon, and Doctor of Divinity. Revised,  
Corrected, and now Collected into one Volume. With an Addition of  
sundry Sermons: Some, not Printed in the former Edition; others, never  
before extant. London: Printed by James Flesher, for John Bartlet the  
elder, and John Bartlet the younger, and are to be sold at the Gilt  
Cup, on the South side of Pauls neer Austins Gate in the new  
Buildings, 1654. FIRST EDITION THUS. Tall 4to (27.5 x 18 cm; 10.75 x 7  
in) bound in modern half calf and marbled boards; divisional title- 
pages; woodcut decorations and initials throughout. Wing H868; ESTC  
R21473.
Robert Harris (1581–1658) was a Puritan preacher and member of the  
Westminster Assembly. A staunch defender of the parliamentary cause  
during the English Civil War, he was turned out of his living at  
Hanwell by royalist troops after the battle of Edgehill (1642).  
Undaunted, he continued preaching in London, Oxford and elsewhere, and  
was eventually made President of Trinity College, a post he held until  
his death. This is considered the "best" collection of Harris's  
sermons and meditations, with several that did not appear in the  
earlier edition (1635). Both editions are described as "of rare  
occurrence," in a previous owner's note on the front flyleaf.

Collation: [6], 12, 60[i.e. 40], [4], 20, 23-287, [5], 25, [3], 27-44,  
49-150, 153-156, 159-278, 281-321, [19] p. Lacking nine leaves (Aa2,  
Cc1, Aaaa1, Eeee3-4, Oooo2, xxxx2, Aaaaa6, (a)), four of which are  
divisional title-pages. The Table is misbound in at the rear and the  
sermon "Concio ad Clerum," though listed last in the table, is bound  
in first. Leaves occasionally toned/darkened, most prominently on the  
title-page and first leaf, some dust-soiling to the edges, a few  
scattered spots and stains, a couple of leaves trimmed or torn at the  
margins not affecting text; otherwise surprisingly clean and sound in  
a sharp, appealing modern binding. With an interesting assortment of  
signatures, doodles and annotations on the endpapers, title-page and  
first leaf by 17th- and 18th-century hands. An imperfect but handsome  
copy of an uncommon title.