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Annotations upon the Five Bookes of Moses, the Booke of the Psalms, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles. 7 parts (with 7 separate title-pages).
London, John Bellamie, 1627 - 1626. Folio (340 x 235 mm). In contemporary full calf with six raised bands and ruled fillets to boards. With considerable wear to extremities, scratches to boards, hinges split in lower and upper compoartment, corners bumped with loss of leather. Leather on lower part of front boards partly detached. Inner hinges split. General title-page detached and with loss of paper (and one letter) in inner margin. Ex-libris (S. Philip Sydenham) pasted on to verso of front board. Blank with considerable wear and partly detached. Previous owner's name and annotations in contemporary hand to front free end-paper (Thomas Burton, 1637 (thomas Burton, MP for Westmorland). Seven parts with seperate title-pages. Internally nice and clean. (10), 172, 156, 184, 206, (2), 168, (24), (2), 189, (7), 59 pp.
Rare first collected edition of Ainsworth's bible commentaries. Henry Ainsworth (1571–1622) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar. He led the Ancient Church, a Brownist or English Separatist congregation in Amsterdam alongside Francis Johnson from 1597, and after their split led his own congregation. His translations of and commentaries on the Hebrew scriptures were influential for centuries.
