Lot 136 , CALAMY, Edmund (‘the Historian’, 1671-1732) Original Manuscript – ‘An Historical Account of my own Life, with Some Reflections on the Times I have live (sic) in ‘

° CALAMY, Edmund (‘the Historian’, 1671-1732) Original Manuscript – ‘An Historical Account of my own Life, with Some Reflections on the Times I have live (sic) in ‘;
written in three folio volumes, earlier 18th cent. half calf & paper boards; paged as: vol. 1 pp. 1-348; vol. 2 pp. 349-517; vol.3 pp. 1-274. In a large and flowing 18th cent. hand (but at vol. 2, p.125 changes to a smaller & thicker script); numerous additional marginal notes, some pencilled page headings, some underlining, some use of square brackets enclosing crossed through text (? for excision). As the work was not published until the nineteenth century (edited J.T. Rutt, 2 vols., 1829) these additions, alterations etc. could be possibly in the hand of an earlier, presumptive editor (? his son, also Edmund). The author, well-known nonconformist minister and historian, was grandson of Edmund Calamy (‘the Elder’) presbyterian and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. Sometime after ordination he succeeded Vincent Alsop as pastor at Tothill Street, Westminster (1703). He wrote at length on the Ejectments of 1662, including additions to Richard Baxter’s writings; his friendship with Daniel Williams (becoming his legacy trustee) led up to the founding of the former’s Charity, and the Dr. Williams’s Library – still happily with us in London’s Gordon Square

£600-900

Condition:
gilt-panelled spines, with red labels’ edges uncut, bindings worn with upper cover vol.1 present, but detached; vol. 3 with ink name – Edmund Calamy on front free endpaper

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