A letter concerning toleration
Subtitle: humbly submitted, &c
Publisher: Printed for Awnsham Churchill, at the Black Swan at Amen-Corner.
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Toleration; Early works to 1800; Religious tolerance
Work titles: Epistola de tolerantia
Notes: Half title, A1 recto: A letter concerning toleration.

Bookseller's advertisement, [A]1 verso: "There will be published in a few days ... ".

Title, A2 recto, within a ruled border.

"Licensed, Octob. 3. 1689." --title page.

Running title: A letter concerning toleration.

Collation: [A]-I⁴ [$2 signed]

Some side notes.

[3] p. at end: "Books lately printed for Awnsham Churchill ... ".

First published anonymously in Latin earlier in 1689 in Gouda (Netherlands), with title: Epistola de tolerantia ... ; translated into English by William Popple.

This is the first edition in English.

Wing (2nd ed.) L2747

Yolton, J.S. Locke, 3

The gift of Thomas Hollis to the Harvard College Library.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Copy imperfect: lacking [A]1 and I4, with half title and bookseller's advertisements.

No. 1 in a volume [annotated by Thomas Hollis] labelled on spine: Lock Of tolerat. I.II.

With this are bound: The argument of the letter concerning toleration. 1690. (Wing P3538); A second letter concerning toleration. 1690. (Wing L2755); and Second letter to the author of the three letters for toleration. 1704.

Bound in contemporary embossed calf, edges sprinkled red.

Bound in 20th century green morocco; covers and spine decorated in gilt with fillets; signed (blind-stamped): C & C McLeish.