Religion and Policy and the Countenance and Assistance Each Should Give to the Other With a Survey of the Power and Jurisdiction of the Pope in the Dominions of Other Princes; Volume the Second. by Edward Earl Of Clarendon - 1811

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1811. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. The first edition of the Earl of Clarendon's posthumously published two volume discussion of papal powers. The two volume first edition of Lord Chancellor Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon's final work.Within these volumes the statesman, politician and historian discusses the history of the growth of papal temporal power, and 'papal usurpation of Supremacy', voicing his alarm at papal attempts to remove authority from kings. Hyde structures his work chronologically, beginning with the first three popes to the start of volume I, and concluding with a discussion of Clement X to the close of volume II.With portrait frontispiece to volume I.With the armorial bookplate of Henry Rowland Brandreth to the front pastedown of each volume. Born in 1794, Brandreth was a member of the Royal Engineers, and Civil Architect to the Admiralty. In full calf bindings. Front board of volume I detached, with rear board tenderly held… Read More