About this title: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: for refusing to comply with the request was to commit unqualified murder. Yet, without such murder, without shedding innocent blood, it was impossible to effect the object. Blood must flow. Amongst the victims to this act of outrageous tyranny were Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher. The former had been the Lord High Chancellor for many years. The character given of him by his contemporaries, and by every one to ...
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Description: Good. Moderate edgewear to cover, and spine is creased. Still a good reading copy. Pages are tight, clean, straight, & unmarked. F6c. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: T A N Books & Publishers
Date Published: 1988-10
ISBN-13:9780895553539ISBN:0895553538
Description: Good. Some Of The First 100 Page Are Wavy From Being Damp, Along W\ Some Notes & Underlining. Rest Of Book Crisp & Clean. Tight Binding, No Spine Creases, Cover In Excellent Physical Condition. GREAT BUY. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Tan Books & Publishers
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780895553539ISBN:0895553538
Description: VG. Large paperback, has a bookplate on the inside front cover and reading creases on the spine, the binding is tight and square and this copy is clean inside and out, "...the author of this book, is unabashedly pro-Catholic in this writing, showing that England was far better off before the Protestant 'Reformation' of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I than she was afterwords...written between 1824 and 1827 by an English Protestant" read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Benziger, New York
Date Published: no date
Description: x-lib. with all attendant defects o/w a good clean working copy. Pages browned. Some folding with marginal tears on frontismatter. Int hinge split at title. read more
Edition: Authorized American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Benziger Brothers
Date Published: 1897
Description: Good. No dj. A new edition revised with notes and preface by Francis Aidan Gasquet. Brown cloth. Contents fragile with some tears. Piece of page 373/74 missing. Bookplate. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd, London
Description: VG for age. Sunning to spine. Pages clean. Binding sound. Only slight wear to cloth. Circa 1900. Originally written between 1824 and 1827. Purple cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. No DJ. 415pp. Index. A Roman Catholic challenge to the validity and usefulness of the Protestant Reformation in the UK and Ireland. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books LLC
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780217310703ISBN:0217310702
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books LLC
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780217340403ISBN:0217340407
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Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00210 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00238 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Cloth Spine/Card Boards
Publisher: Anne Cobbett
Description: Acceptable. CArd boards show wear to edges and corners. Cloth spine has half missing but label there but barely readable. Internally tight binding and clean pages. Dust darkening to page edges. Showing how that event has impoverished the main body of the people of those countries in a series of letters addressed to all sensible and just englishmen. Stereotype Edition. read more
Binding: hb
Publisher: Published by the author, London
Date Published: 1829
Description: Complete two volume set bound in original half leather. Royal 8vo, The text is unpaginated. "Showing how that event has impoverished the main body of the people in those countries; and containing a list of the abbeys, priories, nunneries, hospitals, and other religious foundations in England, and Wales, and Ireland, confiscated, seized on, or alienated, by the Protestant 'Reformation' sovereigns and parliaments. " "In a series of letters addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen". Cobbett ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Published by the author,, London:
Date Published: 1829.
Description: 8vo.2 vols. A2, B-2I8, 2K2, 2L6.; A2, B-2C8, 2D3, 2E8, 2F4. With 6 smaller pages of ads for Cobbett's works. Pages creased at rear of volume 1. First Collected edition. Original boards with new cloth spines. William Cobbett (1762-1835), essayist, politician, and agriculturalist. "Cobbett's boundless pugnacity, self-esteem, and virulence of language injured his reputation; his inconsistency was glaring and his integrity sometimes doubtful. But his shrewd sense, homespun eloquence, and ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: 1/2 Calf
Publisher: Published By the Author, London
Date Published: 1829
Description: VG+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Nicely bound in contemporary 1/2 brown calf, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt decorated panels, black leather titling labels, marbled edges. Each volume with a bookplate on front pastedown and a second bookplate on front endsheet. Prelims are foxed, but remainder quite clean and crisp. Front free fly trimmed in one volume-small hole in second volume. Very nice set. read more
Description: Good. 0895553538 TITLE: History Of The Protestant Reformation InAUTHOR: Cobbett, WISBN 10: 0895553538ISBN 13: 9780895553539BINDING: PaperbackPUBLICATION DATE: 1988PAGES: 406DESCRIPTION: Used book in good or better condition. read more
"WILLIAM COBBETT HAD ENDEAVOURED TO PRESENT AN AUTHENTIC VERSION OF THE HENRY VIII TH RULE OF ENGLAND. THE ABSOLUTE TYRANNY OF THE KING AND HIS SYCOPHANT FOLLOWERS SENDS CHILL DOWN THE SPINES OF THE READER. THE BOOK HAS TO BE CHERISHED FOR COBBETT'S FLAVOURY STYLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE . COBBETT'S STYLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND GRAMMATICAL PERFECTION IN WRITING DESERVE TO BE EMULATED BY LOVERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE."
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