Description: Small octavo (8 by 5 inches) [9] 279 [1] pages, portrait of King Charles; very good condition, marble endpapers, period full leather panel style calf binding with gold fillets on covers, raised bands, gold decorated spine, damage to top of spine above first band, inked signatures of previous owners ("Foster Stuart" and "Wm. L. Leyborne") on front pastedown, penciled note dated 1906 on front fly leaf – none affecting contents. Subtitled: "Shewing the Original, Antiquity and Excellency of MONARCHY, Compared with Aristocracy and Democracy And particularly of Our English Monarchy: AND THAT Absolute, Papal and Presbyterian Popular Supremacy Are utterly inconsistent with Prerogative, Property and Liberty" The author "was an English clergyman, historian and early Tory pamphleteer." Chapters include some of the following discussions: "The two great Principles of Nature, Self-preservation and the Ardent desire of Happiness the Foundation of Society and Government." "Of the danger of Anarchy. The necessity of Laws and Government to prevent it." "Of the Excellency of the English Monarchy, the King having by his gracious Concessions given Limits to his absolute Sovereignty." "The great misfortune of Religion, which is made the great pretence to ruine Monarchy."
Price: 895 USD
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Binding: Period full leather panel style calf binding
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Special Attributes: Rare
Author: John Nalson, LLD.
Region: England
Topic: Divine Right of Kings
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Early English History
Character Family: King Charles II
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1678
