[Rarebooks] fa: Daniel Featley - THE DIPPERS DIPT, or THE ANABAPTISTS DUCK'D - 1647

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Daniel Featley: Katabaptistai kataptystoi. The Dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptists Duck'd and Plung'd over Head and Ears, at a Disputation in Southwark. Also a large and full Discourse of Their 1. Originall. 2. Severall sorts. 3. Peculiar Errours. 4. High Attempts against the State. 5. Capitall punishments. The fifth edition. Augmented with 1. Severall Speeches delivered before this Assembly of Divines. 2. The famous History of the Frantick Anabaptists. Their wild Preachings and Practises in Germany. Together with an Application to this Kingdome; Especially to London. London: Printed for N.B. and Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane, 1647. Small 4to (18.5 cm) in early paneled calf, rebacked; [16], 256 pp. Lacking the frontispiece, leaf (B3) following the table of contents, and the last leaf. Front board detached; ex-library, but with fairly minimal markings (bookplate to paste-down, ink stamp to bottom edge of the text block, etc.); leaves toned with occasional small spots and stains, some leaves trimmed a little close at the fore-edge. Wing F588; ESTC R25394.

Daniel Featley (1582-1645) was one of the translators of the King James Bible and a feisty controversialist who rarely met a theological dispute he didn't want to get involved in. The Dippers dipt, his best-known work, was written in prison and was inspired by a "fierce argument" between Featley and several Baptists in Southwark in 1643. "This amusing treatise passed through six editions in as many years, and mingles invective with anecdotes of the wickedness of his antagonists and its providential punishment. In dedicating the book to the parliament Featley was evidently making a desperate bid for liberty" (DNB). This fifth edition adds Featley's "Orations synodicae" and "A Warning for England," both with separate dated title pages, though the pagination and register are continuous.