Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked, gilt spine with morocco label
1692 · London:
by Norris, John
London: for J. Crosley, and Samuel Manship, 1692 Second edition, revised. Contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked, gilt spine with morocco label. Octavo. Occasional foxing, a few leaves missing portions of lower margins, not affecting text. A very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Gerald Chippindale Rivington. The volume contains several of Norris's most famous essays, including A Metaphysical Essay toward the Demonstration of a God and Contemplation and Love: Or, the Methodical Ascent of the Soul to God, by steps of Meditation. The central argument of the collection is that since truth is by its nature eternal and immutable, it must relate (truncated)