English monasteries and convents abroad.- Owen (Lewis)
English monasteries and convents abroad.- Owen (Lewis) The Running Register: recording a True Relation of the State of the English Colledges, Seminaries and Cloysters in all forraine parts, first edition, woodcut initials and decorations, final blank leaf present with offset facing text, later blind-stamped calf, spine gilt, upper joint split, lower starting, [STC 18996], 4to, Printed [by Felix Kingston] for Robert Milbourne, 1626.
⁂ Anti-Catholic work exposing the iniquities of religious establishments on the continent. The title continues "with a briefe and compendious discourse of the Lives, Practices, Coozenage, Impostures and Deceits of all our English Monks, Friars, Jesuites, and Seminarie Priests in generall."
Provenance: From the library of Hugh Grosvenor, first Duke of Westminster, with his arms on covers, and bookplate dated 1884.
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English monasteries and convents abroad.- Owen (Lewis) The Running Register: recording a True Relation of the State of the English Colledges, Seminaries and Cloysters in all forraine parts, first edition, woodcut initials and decorations, final blank leaf present with offset facing text, later blind-stamped calf, spine gilt, upper joint split, lower starting, [STC 18996], 4to, Printed [by Felix Kingston] for Robert Milbourne, 1626.
⁂ Anti-Catholic work exposing the iniquities of religious establishments on the continent. The title continues "with a briefe and compendious discourse of the Lives, Practices, Coozenage, Impostures and Deceits of all our English Monks, Friars, Jesuites, and Seminarie Priests in generall."
Provenance: From the library of Hugh Grosvenor, first Duke of Westminster, with his arms on covers, and bookplate dated 1884.