(DIGBY, SIR KENELM)

8vo (6 1/8 x 4 in.; 156 x 102 mm). Title-page printed in red and black ink; without the engraved portrait from the 1644 edition, worming along gutter in quires *–E, occasionally touching letters. Contemporary speckled calf paneled gilt, spine in six compartments gilt; plain endpapers, marbled edges; spine age-darkened and rubbed, minor losses to spine ends.

Sir Kenelm Digby (his cipher on the spine). acquisition: Maggs 2006

Wing W1827; ESTC R19969

8vo (6 1/8 x 4 in.; 156 x 102 mm). Title-page printed in red and black ink; without the engraved portrait from the 1644 edition, worming along gutter in quires *–E, occasionally touching letters. Contemporary speckled calf paneled gilt, spine in six compartments gilt; plain endpapers, marbled edges; spine age-darked and rubbed, minor losses to spine ends.
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First edition, Sir Kenelm Digby's copy. Digby is the dedicatee of White's treatise. Written during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, White's implicit message was submission to the de facto ruler. Its political aim was to secure favor with Cromwell, and consequently religious tolerance for Catholicism.