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1716 [Thomas Meighan] (London), 3 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches tall full leather bound (brown French goat), marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, xvii, [5], 230 pp. Association copy: Armorial bookplate of Joseph Gillow to verso of frontispiece, with Gillow's notations and signature on the preceding blank front free-endpaper, identifying the author as Edward Hawarden, with a reference to a biography of him. Gillow (1850-1921) was an English Roman Catholic antiquary and bio-bibliographer, referred to by Thomas Bridgett in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as 'the Plutarch of the English Catholics.' Otherwise, apart from a neat paper repair to the fore edge of one page and occasional light soiling or foxing, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare polemic in defense of Catholicism during the time of English recusancy. In this edition, both the author and the publisher are anonymous, though the publisher was likely Thomas Meighan, sometimes referred to as the 'father of Catholic booksellers in 18th century London,' during a time when it was most impolitic to be a Catholic there, let alone a Catholic publisher and bookseller. An uncommon work, splendidly bound, with an important association. ~UUU~ [1.0P] A rare and important work of Catholic apologetics quietly published and sold in 1716, during the time of English recusancy, when those who remained loyal to the pope and the Roman Catholic Church and did not attend Church of England services were carried on public recusancy rolls and punished by the law. The anonymous author of this work was Edward Hawarden (1662-1735), an English Roman Catholic priest, theologian and controversialist, and the son of Catholic recusants. About the time this work was published, following the Jacobite rising of 1715, Hawarden was appointed Catholic 'controversy writer,' which required that he keep current on attacks against Rome and respond with his own polemics. In this work, Discourses, Hawarden explores many of the theological concepts which were employed against Catholicism - Papal supremacy and infallability, Church councils, the Apocrypha, transubstantiation, prayers to Mary and other saints, images, relics, Latin liturgy, holy days, faith versus works, religious vows, ceremonies, holy water, the Rosary and more, all ending with a critique of the deficiencies of the Protestant churches by comparison. N° de ref. del artículo UUU-0112-11723
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