The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists

Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Charles Ewer, 1816-1817. First edition (unstated). Five leather octavo volumes, b&w illus, frontispieces; 24 cm; Vol 1: 572; Vol 2: xxiv, 600; Vol 3: xiv, 560; Vol 4: xxiii, 552; Vol 5: xiii, 488p. Small scuff to spine head edge and foot edge, very gently bumped corners, light sunning, faint soiling to boards, ink ownership signature to front pastedown, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper only to volume two, light soiling to four front endpapers and to front pastedown, faint soiling to fore-edges, very light soiling to pages, three volumes have volume number to spine halfway worn out, gentle fraying to single corner to three out of five volumes, very small tear to front endpaper to volume four, tiny chafed tear to front endpaper to volume three, ink ownership signature bled onto front free endpaper to volume five, else Very Good to Good(+). Hardcover.

Complete in five volumes thus. Puritans, Religion, History, from the reformation in 1517, to the death of Queen Elizabeth to the beginning of the civil war in 1642, the Battle of Edge Hill to the death of King Charles I, to the King's Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, to the Act of Toleration in the reign of King William and Queen Mary in 1688. No records found in WorldCat for 1816-1817. Despite blemishes, volumes are on the Very Good side of the spectrum overall.