[Rarebooks] fa: ROGER L'ESTRANGE - THE REFORMED CATHOLIQUE or THE TRUE PROTESTANT - 1679

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian theology and religion, auctions ending MONDAY, July 8. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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[Roger L'Estrange:] The Reformed Catholique: or, The True Protestant. London: Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1679. The second edition, corrected. Small 4to (19.5); [2], 35 pp. (lacking the leaf of publisher's adverts). Wing L1290; ESTC R7148.
Disbound from a nonce volume with remnants of old leather binding on the spine; first two page gatherings starting to come loose, but still holding; light toning to the edges of the text block with browning to 7-8 interior leaves; otherwise clean and sound. Loosely laid in to modern paper wraps.

Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was a publisher, editor, prolific pamphleteer and pugnacious controversialist, one of England's earliest true journalists and a key figure in the Restoration period. Above all, he was an arch-Royalist and Tory, his fortunes rising and falling with the House of Stuart throughout his long life. Exiled after the English Civil War, he flourished during the Restoration, starting two separate newspapers and receiving a royal appointment as Surveyor of the Imprimery, or censor of the press, a post in which he executed his duties with a ruthless zeal that did not endear him to everyone; he took a seat in Parliament as member for Winchester and was knighted by James II in 1685. With the Glorious Revolution and the coming of William III, however, he lost his influence and offices, was arrested several times, and eventually found it safer to recede from public life and devote his talents to translating foreign works.