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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. This issue of "The Rise of Puritanism" by William Haller was published by Harper & Row in its Harper Torchbook - Cloister Library Series. It is a reprint of the book originally published in 1938 by Columbia University Press. The full title is "The Rise of Puritanism - or, The Way to the New Jerusalem as Set Forth in Pulpit and Press from Thomas Cartwright to John Lilburne and John Milton, 1570 - 1643" . The following voices of praise were printed on the rear cover: "A book of rare maturity and wealth, yielding much for the interpretation of English and also American religion and life." (Robert Hastings Nichols, in "Christendom") "We have here a vast amount of once vital and for long dead issues revitalized, so that these stout old controversialists seem to plead and thunder once more from their pulpits. The subject is treated in as entertaining a manner as is consistent with its gravity." (Samuel C. Chew, "New York Herald Tribune Book Review") "How much I have been interested in your book would appear to you if you saw my comments in the margin: I often scribble them, sometimes in doggerel, on the books that I find life-enhancing." (- Quoted in "The Letters of George Santayana" , edited by Daniel Cory, 1955) SERIES : Harper Torchbooks - The Cloister Library TITLE : The Rise of Puritanism, or, The Way to the New Jerusalem as Set Forth in Pulpit and Press from Thomas Cartwright to John Lilburne and John Milton, 1570 - 1643 AUTHOR : William Haller (1885 - 1974) IMPRINT : Harper & Row PLACE : New York DATE : (1957) EDITION : Reprint - First Harper Torchbook Series Printing STATUS : This edition OP DETAILS : Trade paperback; approx. 5 1/4" x 8", pictorial wraps; Has a frontispiece reproduction (reduced) of the 1634 edition of John Downame's book, "The Christian Warfare"; has a Preface, Notes, Bibliographical Notes, and an Index; [xii] + 464 pages, plus 4 pages of publisher's list. CONDITION -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR -- Spine has some shallow vertical creasing; small sticker scar on front cover near the bottom fore-edge corner; text-block edges are slightly weathered, else the exterior is clean and attractive. BINDING -- Soli - still fairly tight INTERIOR -- Clean and free of marking. No underlining, no marginalia , no signatures.…