Porteus, Bishop Beilby.
FINE SET OF THIS RARE WORK.
Porteus, Bishop Beilby.
The Life, The Sermons, The Lectures & The Tracts of The Right Reverend Beilby Porteus.
London: Cadell & Davies, 1816-21. 
6 volume set, 8.75 inches tall. A fine set with gilt raised bands, twin labels, dense blind tooling to the panels and diced boards. Portrait. Very slight foxing to the prelims, otherwise a clean fine set. Armorial bookplates to all volumes, the top inch of bookplate from the first volume has been crudely hacked out. Successively Bishop of Chester and of London Porteus was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery.
£600.00    (equal to approx. US$948.94* or €744.97* for 19 May 2012)

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