DEDICATED TO QUEEN ANNE
ECHARD, Laurence.
A general Ecclesiastical History from the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour to the first Establishment of Christianity by humane Laws, under the Emperour Constantine the Great ...
London, W. Bowyer for Jacob Tonson, 1702.
Folio, pp. [14], 360, 369-472, [24 (table)], [10 (index)], with copper-engraved frontispiece by M. Vander Gucht after P. van Plaets and double-page map (trimmed within platemark at fore-edges, barely touching border on one side); small paperflaws to O4 and 2Q2 (touching 2 characters) and to margins of Y1 and 2K1, temoins to sig. 2K dust-stained where unfolded, small wax-stain to p. 285; contemporary Cambridge-panelled calf, gilt red morocco lettering piece to spine, edges speckled red; worn, upper board detached, preserved in a modern red cloth box with gilt calf lettering-piece; bookplate of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, Baron Scarsdale (1726–1804) to upper pastedown (‘P. Mazell fecit’, Franks 7705), later acquisition note dated 11 February 1885 to front free endpaper and a few annotations.
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A general Ecclesiastical History from the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour to the first Establishment of Christianity by humane Laws, under the Emperour Constantine the Great ...
First edition of Echard’s compendious history of the early Church, dedicated to Queen Anne. The work offers a concise and authoritative account compiled from a broad selection of authors, the preface noting: ‘that my Book might want nothing that cou’d be procur’d from others … I have borrow’d from them without Fear or Scruple, laying hold of any Thing that I thought wou’d contribute either to the Usefulness, or the Ornament of my Book. For in Matters of Plagiary, I shall always study my Reader’s Profit before my own Reputation.’
ESTC T137774.
