B. P. Burnett's History of His Own Times. Volumes 1 & 2.

By Bishop Burnet

Printed: 1724 & 1734

Publisher: Subscribers.

Dimensions 24 × 36 × 6 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 24 x 36 x 6

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Tan leather binding with red title plate, raised banding and gilt title on the spine. Cambridge panel on both boards.

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Leather. Condition: Very Good. Rebound early 19 th century/ First Edition Thus. Richly bound into two volumes.
Gilbert Burnet (1643 1715) was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and
historian. Burnet began his ‘History of My Own Time’ in 1683, covering the English Civil War and the Commonwealth of England to the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. The first volume was published in 1724, ending before the Glorious
Revolution. In 1734 the second volume was published, taking the History to the Treaty of Utrecht. The work gives a sketch of the history of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth, and a detailed account of the immediately succeeding period down to 1713. While not free from egotism and some party feeling, it is written with a sincere desire for accuracy and fairness, and it has largely the authority of an eyewitness. The style, if somewhat lacking in dignity, is lively and picturesque. Thomas Babington Macaulay describes Burnet in relation to the king he served, William of Orange: "When the doctor took liberties, which was not seldom the case, his patron became more than usually cold and sullen, and sometimes uttered a short dry sarcasm which would have struck dumb any person of ordinary assurance. Despite such occurrences, however, the amity between this singular pair continued, with some temporary interruptions, till it was dissolved by death. Indeed, it was not easy to wound Burnet’s feelings. His self-complacency, his animal spirits, and his want of tact, were such that, though he frequently gave offence, he never took it.

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Rebacked some time ago

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