FRANK, MARK.
LI sermons preached by the Reverend Dr. Mark Frank (...) Being a course of sermons, beginning at Advent, and so continued through the festivals : to which is added a sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross, in the year forty-one, and then commanded to be printed by King Charles the First.
London, Printed by Andrew Clark for John Martyn, Henry Brome, and Richard Chiswell, 1672.
Folio (320 x 210 mm). In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Lower part of back hinge split. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Light marginal browning to first leaves, but overall a nice and clean copy. (8), 586, (6) pp. + frontispiece.
The exceedingly rare first edition of the Reverend Mark Frank’s posthumously published sermons. Mark Frank (1613-1664), was a theologian associated with Pembroke College, Cambridge. Frank's loyalty to the monarchy was evident in a sermon he preached before Charles I, consequently earning royal favor which earned him numerous ecclesiastical promotions, including becoming a Doctor of Divinity and serving as master of Pembroke College. Mark Frank left behind a rather large corpus of unpublished scholarly and evangelical sermons, which were posthumously published in the present work. Wing F2074A
Order-nr.: 61061
DKK 12.000,00