25th Jan, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST

The David Stather Library

 
  Lot 157
 

157

'Popish Plot' - Narratives
Jenison (Robert), The Narrative of Robert Jenison, of Grays-Inn, Esquire. Containing I, A Further Discovery and Confirmation of the Late Horrid and Treasonable Popish Plot ......
F. Smith, T. Basset, J. Wright ..., 1679, folio, 51 [1] pages, pages tanned, preliminaries a little frayed, recent half calf. ESTC R11080;
Everard (Edmund), The Depositions and Examinations of Mr. Edmund Everard (Who was Four years close Prisoner in the Tower of London) Concerning the Horrid Popish Plot ....
Dorman Newman, 1679, folio, [4],16 pages, recent half calf. ESTC R4864;
Anon., A Just Narrative of the Hellish New Counter-Plots of the Papists ....
Dorman Newman, 1679, folio, [4], 16 pages, recent half leather. ESTC R15875;
Prance (Miles), A True Narrative and Discovery of Several very Remarkable Passages Relating to the Horrid Popish Plot ....
Dorman Newman, 1679, folio, [8], 40 pages, portrait frontis, recent boards. ESTC R8942;
Mansell (Col. Roderick), An Exact and True Narrative of the Late Intrigue, to Form a Plot, and then to cast the Guilt and Odium thereof upon the Protestants .....
Tho. Cockerill and Benj. Alsop, 1680, folio, [A], b-c2, B-N2, O1, P-V2, pagination [10], 50, 53-68, 99-105 [1] (text continuous), repaired tear to V2. (not affecting text), top corners of pages 56-7 adhered, lacks first leaf (possibly an imprimatur), recent half calf. ESTC R20941;
Dangerfield (Thomas), Mr. Tho. Dangerfeilds [sic] Particular Narrative, of the Late Popish Design To Charge those of the Presbyterian Party with a Pretended Conspiracy against His Majesties Person, and Government· Written by Himself.
Henry Hills, John Starkey ..., 1679, folio, [8], 75, [1] pages, recent quarter calf. ESTC R13969 Setting 2;
Dangerfield (Thomas), The Information of Thomas Dangerfield, Delivered at the Bar of the House of Commons, ...20th October, ... 1680.
John Bill, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1680, folio, 15 [1] pages, recent half calf. ESTC R226002 & R6224;
Bedlow (Capt. William), The Examination of Captain William Bedlow Deceased, Relating to the Popish Plot ....
John Bill, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1680, folio, 16 pages, water stain to top corner margin, recent boards. ESTC R519 (8)

Sold for £400
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

Auction: The David Stather Library, 25th Jan, 2023

A single-owner sale of the Library of David Stather (1940-2022)

The library comprises a large collection of early books, pamphlets and manuscripts on English history, focusing on the English Civil War, the ‘Popish Plot’,  the Monmouth Rebellion and the Glorious Revolution, early Parliament and the Monarchy of that period, the development of English law, the Reformation, early bibles and prayer books, chronicles of English history and some very early books on witchcraft.

The earliest manuscript dates from 1285, and the earliest book is an incunable from 1486, however the majority date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Interestingly, many are books that contribute to English history rather than just reporting on it, for example the collection includes books reporting the Popish Plot, which were written specifically to create social division through what is now known as ‘fake news’.

 The books have been lovingly preserved by David Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from a very focused collection built up over his lifetime.

Please submit any enquiries for the sale to books@tennants-ltd.co.uk 

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