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PHILLIPS, THOMAS. The History of the Life of Reginald Pole. Engraved frontispiece portrait; folding genealogical table. [iii]-xxvi, [2], 460;
PHILLIPS, THOMAS. The History of the Life of Reginald Pole. Engraved frontispiece portrait; folding genealogical table. [iii]-xxvi, [2], 460; [iii]-x, 248 pages; lacks half-titles. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf handsomely gilt with wide floral border on covers, spine in 7 compartments with morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest. Oxford: William Jackson for D. Prince, 1764
- Notes: first edition. Cardinal Pole (1500-58) became Archbishop of Canterbury 2 years before his death. "Phillips's object in writing this valuable piece of biography was to give to the English nation a correct account of the council of Trent from the Roman catholic point of view. The work excited, on the protestant side, a general alarm" (DNB).
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