woodcut initials and head-pieces, front pastedown pasted-in label giving notice of the bequest to the library of Trinity College Cambridge of the collection of Professor John Paris, title verso pasted-in label bearing the engraved arms of the college, both with small college ink stamps, faint even browning, a little damp-affected at edges, contemporary blind-tooled calf, worn, paper library labels to spine, upper board detached, lower joint splitting, for J. Downing, 1731, bound with A Recantation Sermon..., second edition, for J. Hodges, 1729 § Brett (Thomas) The Divine Right of Episcopacy..., front pastedown Swan Family bookplate, publisher's catalogue at end, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, edges foxed, pencil marginalia, a few ff. detached, later calf, new endpapers, boards detached, for Henry Clements, 1718, 8vo (2) *** John Paris (1680?-1742), Fellow of Trinity College, Senior Bursar and Proctor of the university, a chaplain to the Grenadier Guards; author of, respectively, Miscellanea Practico-Theoretica, A True and Impartial Account of the Differences Between the Master and Fellows, The True State of Trinity College (this in collaboration with Samuel White, himself also a Fellow), and - it is assumed - Ramillies: A Poem Humbly Inscribed to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
woodcut initials and head-pieces, front pastedown pasted-in label giving notice of the bequest to the library of Trinity College Cambridge of the collection of Professor John Paris, title verso pasted-in label bearing the engraved arms of the college, both with small college ink stamps, faint even browning, a little damp-affected at edges, contemporary blind-tooled calf, worn, paper library labels to spine, upper board detached, lower joint splitting, for J. Downing, 1731, bound with A Recantation Sermon..., second edition, for J. Hodges, 1729 § Brett (Thomas) The Divine Right of Episcopacy..., front pastedown Swan Family bookplate, publisher's catalogue at end, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, edges foxed, pencil marginalia, a few ff. detached, later calf, new endpapers, boards detached, for Henry Clements, 1718, 8vo (2) *** John Paris (1680?-1742), Fellow of Trinity College, Senior Bursar and Proctor of the university, a chaplain to the Grenadier Guards; author of, respectively, Miscellanea Practico-Theoretica, A True and Impartial Account of the Differences Between the Master and Fellows, The True State of Trinity College (this in collaboration with Samuel White, himself also a Fellow), and - it is assumed - Ramillies: A Poem Humbly Inscribed to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough.
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