A Preservative Against Popery, In Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists: Vols. I - III

London: H. Knaplock et al (vols. I & II); J. Walthoe et al, 1738. Hardcover. Very good. 3 vols.: x, 359, 236, 213, 90; iv, 323, 357, 156, 151, [24]; viii, 460, 59, 106, 92, 178, 103, [15] p. 37 cm. Leather Cambridge panel binding with gold trim and blank impressing. Raised spines and red edges to text blocks. Corners bumped. Some small chips elsewhere. Bookplates on front pastedowns for Charles Lewes Dashwood. Hinges repaired. New spine labels and endpapers. Paper very clean and bright except some damp stains to upper corners of first pages of vol. II. Closed tear in p. III of vol. II. Vol. III has no date.

Title continues: "Written and Published by the most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, chiefly in the Reign of King James II." "Preservative against Popery" is the name commonly given to this collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund Gibson. Gibson (1669 – 1748) was a divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, as well as being a jurist and antiquary. The books, however, are a compilation of numerous controversial writings of eminent Anglican divines, dating chiefly from the period of James II.