John Checkley; or the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay. Including Mr. Checkley's Controversial Writings; His Letters and Other Papers; His Presentment on the Charge of a Libel for Publishing a Book; His Speech at His Trial; the Hon. John Read's Plea in Arrest of Judgment; and a Bibliography of the Great Controversy on Episcopacy by the Ministers of The Standing Order and the Clergy of the Church of England. 1719-1774., with Historical Illustrations and a Memoir by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, in Two Volumes [Publications of the Prince Society]
Boston: The Prince Society, 1897. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
One of 250 copies. Volume I: Loss to spine head and to spine base. Both volumes: Spine creased, some small chips to wrapper edges.
287; 320 pp. Two volume set. CHECKLEY, John, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1680; died in.....