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[USURY] -- Roger FENTON (1565-1616). A Treatise of Usurie, divided into three bookes: The first defineth what is usurie. The second defineth that to be unlawfull. The third removeth such motives as perswade men in this age that it may be lawfull. London: Felix Kingston for William Aspley, 1612.
4° (181 x 140mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary blindstamped calf. (Missing A1 (blank?)). Provenance: 'Thomas Some me suum vult' (contemporary inscription); John Elshly (early inscription); with note 'my Maide Sarah came the 5 of July 1663'; list of names with sums of money (ca.1700) on stub of front free endpaper. STC 10807. Second edition. [Bound with:] A Treatise against the Necessary Dependance upon that One Head, and the present Reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Together with certaine sermons. London: Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, 1617. 4°. (A little waterstaining, rubbing, pencil and pen marks.) STC 10805.
Sir Robert FILMER (ca.1590-1653). A Discourse Whether it may be Lawful to take Use for Money...published by Sir Roger Twisden, with his preface to it. London: Will. Crook, 1678. 12° (148 x 88mm). Contemporary marbled-paper-covered boards (rubbed), later quarter-calf. Provenance: C.W.Reynell (mid-19th-century ownership inscription, with note in same hand: 'Jeremy Bentham says that this book of Sir Robert Filmer's first set him to writing "The Defence of Usury", and this last work it was, a few years since [1854], that caused the repeal of the absurd laws against usury, which only oppressed those they were intended to protect'. Filmer's work, which largely takes the form of a critique of Fenton, had first appeared under the title of Quaestio Quodlibetica, or a Discourse [etc.] in 1653. Wing F-911. (2)
4° (181 x 140mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary blindstamped calf. (Missing A1 (blank?)). Provenance: 'Thomas Some me suum vult' (contemporary inscription); John Elshly (early inscription); with note 'my Maide Sarah came the 5 of July 1663'; list of names with sums of money (ca.1700) on stub of front free endpaper. STC 10807. Second edition. [Bound with:] A Treatise against the Necessary Dependance upon that One Head, and the present Reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Together with certaine sermons. London: Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, 1617. 4°. (A little waterstaining, rubbing, pencil and pen marks.) STC 10805.
Sir Robert FILMER (ca.1590-1653). A Discourse Whether it may be Lawful to take Use for Money...published by Sir Roger Twisden, with his preface to it. London: Will. Crook, 1678. 12° (148 x 88mm). Contemporary marbled-paper-covered boards (rubbed), later quarter-calf. Provenance: C.W.Reynell (mid-19th-century ownership inscription, with note in same hand: 'Jeremy Bentham says that this book of Sir Robert Filmer's first set him to writing "The Defence of Usury", and this last work it was, a few years since [1854], that caused the repeal of the absurd laws against usury, which only oppressed those they were intended to protect'. Filmer's work, which largely takes the form of a critique of Fenton, had first appeared under the title of Quaestio Quodlibetica, or a Discourse [etc.] in 1653. Wing F-911. (2)