[Rarebooks] Poetry, Religion, and the Oxford Movement, 1842

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[POETRY AND THE OXFORD MOVEMENT].  In re Williams versus Garbett.
The Judgment of an Ecclesiastical Court.  Printed and Published
by J. Vincent, Oxford, 1842.  Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a
usable if somewhat fragile copy, 15 pages; no copy in COPAC,
three in OCLC. PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=76870
							$ 350.00

A rare tract, a sharp satire (appropriately in verse) of the
contested 1842 election of the Professor of Poetry at Oxford,
devolving into an ecclesiastical dispute and "mark[ing] the
beginning of the decline of the Tractarian movement in Oxford".

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