Selections from the Fox Pointe Manor Library

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Lot 22
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Blaxton, John

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Description

  • The English Usurer: or, Usury Condemned, by the most learned and famous Divines of the Church of England, and Dedicated to all his Majesties Subjects, for the stay of further increase of the same. London: John Norton, 1634
  • paper, ink, leather
4to (172 x 135 mm). Woodcut before title depicting in one compartment a Usurer counting his money, and in the other two pigs rooting, with explanation leaf facing; lacks blank before printed title, minor repairs to leaf facing woodcut, illustration a little rubbed and a few headlines shaved. Nineteenth-century brown morocco, rubbed.

Literature

STC 3129; Kress 492

Catalogue Note

first edition of this rare work on English usury, with poetical contributions by George Wither and Francis Quarles.