8vo. [4], 63pp, [1]. [Bound with:] A Letter of Resolution to a Friend, Concerning the Marriage of Cousin Germans. London. Printed by H.H. for Walter Kettilby, 1682. [16], 29pp, [1]. With blank A1 but without final leaf of advertisements, C8. Two works bound in one, recent blue paper boards. Occasional marginal loss and slight shaving to fore-edge notes of first work. Ink inscriptions of Tho. Twisleton to each title, further inscriptions of John and Wm. Chapman to first title.

John Turner (b.1649/50), Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Anglican clergyman and legal writer. Whilst his earlier works of the 1670s are generally devotional in nature, those of the 1680s chiefly concern legal matters. This present pair combines the two in an examination of the rectitude of marriage between cousins, presumably not unrelated to the contentious marriage of Princess Mary to her cousin William of Orange.