by Muggleton, Lodowick. [Blake, William]
London: Printed in the Year of our Lord God 1699: and Re-printed in the year 1764.
Sm. 4to, vii, (viii, errata), 179pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, not always present. Original blue boards, white paper backstrip rather soiled, ff. iv-v also soiled, otherwise a good copy as issued entirely untrimmed.
§ Second edition of Lodowick Muggleton's spiritual autobiography, published posthumously in 1699 and reprinted in 1764. Muggleton was the founder of a radical Protestant sect which engaged in heated debates with the Quakers and others. Morton, in "The Everlasting Gospel" (1958 et seq.), is responsible for suggesting that Blake many have been influenced by extreme dissenters including Muggletonians -- others disagreed. Bentley, BBS, p.579. “Blake participates in a radical politico-religious tradition that was most vocal and extreme in the seventeenth century... chiefly Ranters, Muggletonians, and other extreme dissenters”. ESTC T91008; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, p. 310. See Wikipedia for a long entry on Muggletonianism. (Inventory #: 126355)
Sm. 4to, vii, (viii, errata), 179pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, not always present. Original blue boards, white paper backstrip rather soiled, ff. iv-v also soiled, otherwise a good copy as issued entirely untrimmed.
§ Second edition of Lodowick Muggleton's spiritual autobiography, published posthumously in 1699 and reprinted in 1764. Muggleton was the founder of a radical Protestant sect which engaged in heated debates with the Quakers and others. Morton, in "The Everlasting Gospel" (1958 et seq.), is responsible for suggesting that Blake many have been influenced by extreme dissenters including Muggletonians -- others disagreed. Bentley, BBS, p.579. “Blake participates in a radical politico-religious tradition that was most vocal and extreme in the seventeenth century... chiefly Ranters, Muggletonians, and other extreme dissenters”. ESTC T91008; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, p. 310. See Wikipedia for a long entry on Muggletonianism. (Inventory #: 126355)
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