A practical discourse concerning swearing: especially the two great points of perjury and common-swearing

by William Wake

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Richard Sare, 1696. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 2 , xxix i.e. xlv , 15 , 144; occasional use of Greek and Hebrew type; full contemporary paneled calf with gilt rules and fleurons; joints cracked cords holding , the whole rubbed and worn but sound, red morocco label on spine rubbed ; internally quite crisp. Wake 1657-1737 was a very prolific writer and the archbishop of Canterbury, a man of wide reading, immense industry, and of a liberal and

• Binding: Leather

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