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Gangraena : or a catalogue and discovery of many of the errours, heresies, blasphemies and pernicious practices of the sectaries of this time, vented and acted in England in these four last years : as also, a particular narration of divers stories, remarkable passages, letters, an extract of many letters all concerning the present sects ; together with some observations upon and corallaries from all the fore-named premisses / by Thomas Edwards ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.
- Standardized Title:
- Gangraena. Part 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sects--Great Britain.
- Sects.
- Great Britain--Church history--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Church history.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)
- Williams, Watkin (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages, 184, that is, 212, 117-124 pages ; 20 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Catalogue and discovery of many errors of the sectaries
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Ralph Smith ..., MDCXLVI [1646]
- Notes:
- Text is continuous despite pagination.
- Parts 2 and 3 were also published in the same year.
- Title page within woodcut borders; woodcut initials and head-pieces.
- Errors in pagination, including 49-76 repeated in sequence.
- With side- and shoulder-notes.
- Local Notes:
- This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.
- Library's copy wanting all pages after p. 184.
- Title and author's name in ms. on front free endpaper.
- Title page and front cover detached from spine.
- Bound with: Edwards, Thomas. The third part of Gangraena. London : Printed for Ralph Smith ..., 1646.
- Cited in:
- Wing E-228
- ESTC R9639
- Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, 559
- OCLC:
- 77559029
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