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Christmas Restored, with Early Delaware Provenance

Contemplations Moral and Divine. In Two Parts Contemplations moral and divine. In two parts. By Sir Matthew Hale, knight; late Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench. Imprimatur. Ex edibus Lambethanis Martij 13. 1675/6. Antonins [sic] Saunders, Reverendissimo Dno, Domino Gilberto Archi-episc. Cant. à sacris domesticis.

Hale, Matthew.

London: Printed for William Shrowsbery and S. Leigh, 1689.

Price: $1,250.00

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About the item

Portrait (backed). [12], 360; [8], 308 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century half morocco, signed J.T. Heald, Bookbinder 127 Market Street, Wilmington, Del. Wing H-229; ESTC R12165; Grolier/Elliot 13 (First Edition).

Item #264747

Early edition of these devotional treatises by the famous jurist, containing the first appearance of his "Poems upon Christmas Day" (pp. 91-118 of part 2). The celebration of Christmas, having recently been outlawed under Cromwell, had just been reinstituted with the Restoration.

Signed by Richard Bassett on top of title-page which is backed. He was a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention from Delaware.