Joseph Burroughs. A View of Popery taken form the Creed of Pope Pius the IV. 1737. First edition.

View of Popery

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Joseph Burroughs. A View of Popery taken form the Creed of Pope Pius the IV. Containing an Answer to the most material things in the Profession of Catholic Faith, &c... London: J. Noon, R. Ford, and J. Gray, 1737. Second edition, corrected. Small quarto (7.625 x 5 inches; 195 x 127 mm.). 159, [1, table of contents] pages; errata, appendix and table of contents all present. Engraved plate, in-text woodcut black letter in the appendix, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary cord binding, in want of backstrip and boards; all edges of the text block sprinkled red. Spine slightly leaning. Top edge of the text lightly darkened; first and last leaves a little soiled, but, in general, a bright, clean text; stab holes visible throughout the gutter margin. A near fine text block. Burroughs was an English Baptist minister. ETSC T138342. (#10318).