Skip to product information
1 of 6

Specs Fine Books

1778 SAMUEL PALMER. The Puritans of the Great Ejection. Two Volumes + Beautiful Engravings.

1778 SAMUEL PALMER. The Puritans of the Great Ejection. Two Volumes + Beautiful Engravings.

Regular price $425.00 USD
Regular price Sale price $425.00 USD
Sale Sold out

A very textually crisp example, retaining all the called for plates of prominent puritans, of one of the most important histories of the Great Ejection of 1662. This is the second, greatly expanded, and illustrated edition. 

Engravings include: Edmund Calamy [both Senior and Junior]; Thomas Doolittle; William Jenkyn; William Bates; Henry Jessey; Joseph Caryl, Thomas Jacomb; Thomas Manton' Thomas Gouge [Gough]; John Owen; Stephen Charnock; Thomas Goodwin; Richard Gilpin; John Flavel; Obadiah Hughes; William Benn; Thomas Warren; Samuel Shaw; Thomas Spademan; William Bridge; Francis Tallents; Samuel Fairclough; Richard Baxter; and Daniel Williams. 

The original subscriber's list, present here, includes various prominent ministers and evangelicals: Abraham Booth; George Burder; Thomas Buxton; Edmund Calamy; Samuel Davies; Caleb Evans; Benjamin Fawcett; James Hervey; Andrew Kippis; Job Orton; John Ryland; John Sutcliffe; George Whitefield's Society; etc. etc. 

Additionally, bound in at the rear is a very scarce separately issued work translating the Epitaphs of the ejected puritans which are supplied by Palmer in Latin and an original poem on the Great Ejection. This scarce.

Palmer, Samuel. The Nonconformists's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers who were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, which took Place on Bartholomew-day, Aug. 24, 1662. Containing a concise View of Their Lives and Characters, Their Principles, Sufferings, and Printed-Works. Originally written by the Reverend and Learned Edmund Calamy, D.D. Now abridged and corrected, and the Author's Additions inserted, with many further Particulars, and new Anecdotes, by Samuel Palmer. To which is Prefixed an Introduction, containing a brief History of the Times in which they lived, and the Grounds of their Nonconformity. Embellished with the Heads of many of those venerable Divines. London. Printed for Alexr. Hogg. 1778. 551 + 648pp.

[bound with]

Gibbons, Thomas. An English Version of the Latin Epitaphs in the Nonconformist's Memorial: To which is added a Poem Sacred to the Memory of the Two Thousand Ministers Ejected or Silenced by the Act of Uniformity, August 24, 1662. London. Printed for W. Harris. 1775. 36pp.

The whole quite good in likely mid-20th century quarter leather bindings, some rubbing as shown; very durable and shelf attractive. Interior with some minor handling and a few unobnoxious pencil marks toward the beginning. The separately bound work has slight paper losses at corner of last three leaves, not impacting text. Lacks the plate of "George Hughes," at least appropriately paginated. It could be misbound somewhere. Still wonderful. The volumes often have been long ago plundered and this retains all but one. 

View full details