No other copies on the market, this important two volume work covers the history of religious liberty as an ideal, in theology, and in practice through the lives and writings of the reformers, puritans, covenanters, Baptists, Roger Williams, and into the formation of America. This is the same Benjamin Brook who wrote the classic three volume Lives of the Puritans that has been reprinted again and again. Very scarce.
Brook, Benjamin. The History of Religious Liberty from the First Propagation of Christianity in Britain, to the Death of George III., Including its Successive State, Beneficial Influence, and Powerful Interruptions. In Two Volumes. London. F. Westley. 1820. First and only edition. 544 + 554pp.
Good, solid condition in early or original half leather volumes with marbled boards. Ex library from Newton Theological Seminary with c.1900 labels at base of spine; some rubbing, but solid. Internal ex library markings are negligible. Small mark on prelims [not title] and one label on rear pastedown measuring 3/4 x 3 inches.