THEOLOGY. – Richard HOOKER. The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker… Vindicating the Church of England. London: by J. Best for Andrew Cook, 1662. First edition, 4to (284 x 183mm.) Additional engraved title dated 1661, engraved portrait, woodcut initials and decorations, 8pp. ‘Table’ to rear. (Marginal insect damage from Kk1-Mm1, losses to rear blank, additional title and portrait laid-down with marginal losses.) Contemporary calf (rubbed, some insect-damage, calf lifting from upper board). Provenance: Chris Crouch (ink name to front blank); Johan Clendon (ink name to front blank); Richard James (ink name to front blank). – And a further fourteen volumes (including A. Boyer’s ‘The Royal Dictionary Abridged’, third edition, 1715, 8vo, and John Heylyn’s ‘An Interpretation of the New Testament’, 1761, 4to, and John Heylyn’s ‘Theological Lectures at Westminster-Abbey’, 1749, 4to, and, published by John Stockdale, ‘The History of the Inquisitions, including the Secret History of those Horrific Tribunals’, 1810, 4to, and John E. Sowerby’s ‘The Grasses of Great Britain’, 1858, [60 plates], 8vo) (15).