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Selden John - Table-Talk Being The Discourses of John Selden Esq
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Or His Sense of various Matters of Weight and high Consequence; Relating especially to Religion and State. The Second Edition. Printed for Jacob Tonson and John Churchill, London, 1696, TP, Epistle Dedicatory, Table, 192pp, full calf, spine taped, small loss to lower left corner of TP, else good, ex libris BP of the Rev Gerald Montagu Benton (1881-1959) a distinguished English clergyman, historian & archaeologist and leading authority of the history .of Essex. A scarce copy. Selden is generally considered England's first legal historian, who questioned all of his contemporaries and their definition of history.
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