[Rarebooks] fa: FRANCIS BUGG - PICTURE OF QUAKERISM DRAWN TO THE LIFE 1697 (Anti-Quaker polemic)

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Francis Bugg: The Picture of Quakerism Drawn to the Life. In Two Parts. The First, Shewing the Vanity of the Quakers pretence of their being the one, only Catholick Church of Christ; and that the Apostolick Order thereof; is Re-established amongst them; and them only; Also shewing, that Legal Punishment is not Persecution, whereby the Christian Magistrates of the English Government, are cleared from the odious scandal of Persecution; charged on them by the Quakers. The Second, Containing, a brief History of the Rise, Growth, and Progress of Quakerism; being a modest Correction of the General History of the Quakers wrot in Holland by Gerrard Croese. London: Printed for, and are to be sold by W. Kettleby at the Bishop’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard, and W. Rogers at the Sun in Fleet-street, 1697. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo (16.5 cm) in early/period paneled calf with later[?] gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [16], 123, [1]; [16], 196 pp.; folding table (bound in as as two pages). Wing B5381; Sabin 9072; Smith, Friends’ books 1.337; ESTC R6912.

First edition of this opening salvo in Bugg's long-running war with the Quakers. Francis Bugg (1640-1727) had himself been 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 modest wear, bumping to the corners; professional repairs to the joints and one corner; contents mildly age-toned, first title-page a bit browned and spotted; occasional small ink notations in the margins by an early hand; else generally quite clean. Possibly lacking one prefatory leaf of the second part (contents page?); however, if the blank leaf bound in between the two parts in this copy is counted as part of the collation, it matches the collation of ESTC  R6912. Early owners' signatures of Mary Stevens and Jo. Wally.