Forty eight sermons and discourses on Several Subjects, and occasions. In Four Volumes..
London.
Printed by G. James, for Jonah Bowyer, 1715.
First edition.
In four volumes. [8], 500pp, [4]; [16], 480pp; [16], 476pp, [4];[8], 542pp, [2]. ESTC N45839.
[Uniformly bound with:] SOUTH, Robert. Twelve sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions. London. Printed for John Bowyer, 1724. In two volumes, labelled v and vi. [2], iv, [10], 497pp, [4]; [2], 442pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to vol. v. ESTC T228105.
8vo. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to Vols. I, III, and IV. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red-morocco lettering-pieces. An attractive set, very lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to FEP of each volume. Browning and spotting to endpapers, very light scattered spotting to text of all volumes.
[Uniformly bound with:] SOUTH, Robert. Twelve sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions. London. Printed for John Bowyer, 1724. In two volumes, labelled v and vi. [2], iv, [10], 497pp, [4]; [2], 442pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to vol. v. ESTC T228105.
8vo. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to Vols. I, III, and IV. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red-morocco lettering-pieces. An attractive set, very lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to FEP of each volume. Browning and spotting to endpapers, very light scattered spotting to text of all volumes.
A handsomely bound collection of sermons by Robert South (1634-1716), English churchman, combative preacher, and poet. The six volumes in this uniformly bound set comprise the first edition of forty-eight sermons published in 1715, with an additional two volumes, containing twelve further sermons, published in 1724.
Known for his wit, South gained renown for his sermons in 1659 and 1660 attacking the Independents and Presbyterians respectively. Controversially, he would ridicule the Royal Society in his 1699 dedication of the Sheldonian Theatre, leading to outcry from clergyman and mathematician John Wallis.
South's good humour extended to his own critics - Mark Noble recounts, upon an incident in which a congregation had fallen asleep, that 'Stopping and changing the tone of his voice, he called thrice to Lord Lauderdale, who, awakened, stood up: 'My Lord' says South very composedly 'I am sorry to interrupt your repose, but I must beg that you will not snore quite so loud, lest you should awaken his majesty'.
Provenance: recently dispersed from the Sandys family library at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
£ 450.00
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Known for his wit, South gained renown for his sermons in 1659 and 1660 attacking the Independents and Presbyterians respectively. Controversially, he would ridicule the Royal Society in his 1699 dedication of the Sheldonian Theatre, leading to outcry from clergyman and mathematician John Wallis.
South's good humour extended to his own critics - Mark Noble recounts, upon an incident in which a congregation had fallen asleep, that 'Stopping and changing the tone of his voice, he called thrice to Lord Lauderdale, who, awakened, stood up: 'My Lord' says South very composedly 'I am sorry to interrupt your repose, but I must beg that you will not snore quite so loud, lest you should awaken his majesty'.
Provenance: recently dispersed from the Sandys family library at Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
