Lord Bacon not the Author of "The Christian Paradoxes" : Being a Reprint of "Memorials of Godliness and Christianity", by Herbert Palmer : With introduction, memoir, and notes, by the Rev. Alexander R. Grosart
Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation; Printed by Ballantyne, 1865.
Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Item #9032
Library REBIND in hardcover with original front wrap bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, MISSING portrait frontispiece, otherwise light wear. 1869 gift inscription. Solid hardcover.; "Private reprint which is limited to 100 copies large paper, and 150 small" -- Pref. note, p. vi. Includes text (p. [49]-111) with reproduction of the title-page of each of the 3 parts of "Memorials of Godliness and Christianity ... London, 1655." Appendices: Surreptitious ed. of "The paradoxes."--Various readings from "The remaines."--Other writings of Palmer.--Ralph Venning's "Paradoxes." "Here then we find a book passing current through two hundred and years of the most recent history, under the name of a renowned philosopher, popularly read, criticized by literary men, argued upon by metaphysicians and the chiefs of science throughout Europe, and regularly admitted as an important datum in the history of opinion; yet, all the while, this essay, which is not Bacon's at all, existed in numerous printed editions, with the name of the real author, Herbert Palmer ..." - James Martineau; Seat of Authority in Religion (1890), page 178. In this work of literary detection, Grosart re-established Herbert Palmer as the author of The Christian Paradoxes, refuting the mis-attribution to Lord Bacon. ; Ex-Library; vi, 126, 2 ad pages.
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