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1. This volume containing Richard Hooker’s sixth and eighth books dealing with The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Policy… is a 1651 re-issue of an edition first published three years earlier. The principal attraction, however, was the armorial binding.
A contemporary one of Parisian mottled calf, its gilt decorations and armorial mark it out as a volume from John Evelyn’s library. In 1977-78, when Christie’s sold the Evelyn library, it made £190, but in the recent Dominic Winter in South Cerney sale it took £2300.