Author: Pagitt, Ephraim (1574 or 5-1647) with additional material compiled by the publisher William Lee
Title: HERESIOGRAPHY, Or a Description of the Heretickes and Sectaries Sprang up in these latter times, Declaring 1. Their Original and first proceeding. 2. Their Errors and Blasphemies. 3. Their several sorts. 4. Their Audacious boldnesse in those dayes. 5. The confutation of their Errours. 6. How they have been punished and suppressed amongst us heretofore, and likewise at this present.
Description: London, William Lee, 6th and last edition. 1661 Full page "brasse" plate with 6 heresies + scenes of repentance & destruction + 7 half-page engraved portraits of "heretics" or "sectaries". . Octavo handsome tan roan on 5 raised bands with red gilt titled spine label (covers re-attached). Facing engraved titlepage is a listing of the Sectaries & some contents of the text. Printed title says "added this year 1661 many new additions not heretofore extant in print together with brasse plates of the most eminent Sectaries", +[22]pp prelims {inc. publisher's account of author's life & material added to this 1661 edition) +279pp +[18]pp (Postscript, index and publisher's catalogue), collated complete. Coat of arms of Andrew Robert Vaughan Daubeney (1873-1971) on pastedown, 1 leaf with 2 ink crossings out and 2 marginal ink "corrections". Frontispiece and facing page are a bit squeezed into gutter and the plate is cropped at fore-edge, but otherwise all margins are good and side notes are not cropped. A nice copy with some signs of use. Highlights include chapters on Brownists and Quakers. There is a plate of an Adamite on p117. *Pagitt (or Pagit) was a committed Royalist. This 6th (posthumous) edition is the last publication of his most notable work, with many more pages of new material, and portrait plates added by the publisher William Lee after his 5th edition. The last section, with portrait of James Naylor (1618-1660), notably says "The Quaker is an upstart branch of the Anabaptists, lately sprung up, but thickest set in the North parts; the body of this Heresie is composed and made up out of the dregs of the common people" (Referenced by ESTC R24442, Wing CD-Rom 1996 P181).

Keywords: sects heresies Christian religion Quakers illustrated


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