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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HARRISON, ROBERT (d. 1585) Schoolmaster, then separatist, and BROWNE, ROBERT (1550s-1633) English separatist and founder of the Brownist group. The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne. London : Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd., Museum Street, for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust. 1953. 8vo. xi, 560 pp. dw. Volume 2 of 6 of the Elizabethan Nonconformist Texts Series, edited by Albert Peel and Leland H. Carleson. Original maroon cloth cover with gilt titles. Fine. Dustjacket near fine in protective cover and a little browned down the spine. Not price-clipped. Contents clean, crisp and unmarked apart from previous owner on the ffep. Nice copy! The volumes in the series are: Vol. 1: Cartwrightiana, Vol. 2: The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, Vol. 3: The Writings of Henry Barrow 1587-1590. Vol. 4: The Writings of John Greenwood 1587-1590, Vol 5: The Writings of Henry Barrow 1590-91, Vol 6: The Writings of John Greenwood and Henry Barrow 1591-1593. The series was originally published in the 1950s by George Allen & Unwin making available very rare Reformation and early Puritan material (tracts and manuscripts etc.) for the very first time. It is impossible to understand the rise and development of Independency and of the democratic idea in religion and in politics without reflection upon some of this rare material.