[Rarebooks] fa: FRANCIS BUGG: QUAKERISM ONCE MORE DRAWN TO LIFE + QUAKERISM A GRAND IMPOSTURE &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending MONDAY, July 6. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Francis Bugg: The Picture of Quakerism Once more Drawn to the Life. Containing XX Articles of their Faith. Together with XX Modest Queries, humbly propounded to the wise in Heart,... Touching such singular Favours which they petition for. Humbly Dedicated to Authority, by a Servant of the Church, Fra. Bugg. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by R. Wilkin, at the King's Head, and Hen. Clements, at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1714. [BOUND WITH:] Quakerism a Grand Imposture: or, The Picture of Quakerism Continued. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by R. Wilkin…and Sam. Keble…1716. [BOUND WITH:] The Picture of Quakerism Compleated, for a Memorial to Future Generations. Containing also a brief Account of the Conduct of the late Bishop of Salisbury, both when he was Mr. Burnet, and when he was Bishop Burnet. With a Summary of the Quakers most Fundamental Errours, and the Methods they have taken for the Propagation of them from the Year 1650, to the Year 1717. Founded upon uncontestable Matter of Fact. London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by R. Wilkin… and Sam. Keble, 1717. First edition thus. Three works bound in one volume; 8vo (17.5 cm); early/period paneled calf rebacked with modern calf, gilt-lettered spine label; [2], 72, 3-96 pp.; viii, 97-304 pp.; 315-403, [5] pp.; with the folding table. Erratic pagination, but complete, matching the collation of ESTC N11588.

Anti-Quaker works of Francis Bugg, collected and expanded to eight parts, presumably intended as his final word on a subject he'd been chewing on for well over thirty years. Bugg (1640-1727) was himself a member of the Society of Friends before falling out with them in 1680 over the reimbursement of fines imposed on him when he was arrested at a Quaker meeting. Having appealed to William Penn and other arbitrators, and been dissatisfied with the result, Bugg left the Quakers and spent much of the rest of his life writing and rewriting vituperative denunciations of them. Despite being occasionally compensated by the Church of England for his efforts, he was so zealous and prolific in the pursuit of his cause that he went broke paying his printers' bills. "His works are worth study as affording good specimens of the controversial spirit of the age, as well as for their quaint vivacity" (DNB).

Binding with some bumping to the corners and modest wear; inconsistent paper quality in the first work causing browning to two leaves and offsetting to a few others; otherwise the contents are quite clean and crisp, with occasional light toning, a few small spots and stains. Rear endpaper with the signature of "Sy:[mon?] Chapman, Liber Eius 1734"; front paste-down with the early ownership signature of S.G. Fenton and the later armorial bookplate of Sir James Whitehead, Baronet.