Lot 314: KING, HENRY.

Six volumes:

A Sermon of Deliverance. Preached at the Spittle on Easter Monday, 1626. John Haviland for John Marriot, 1626, 4to, first edition, modern boards, paper label on upper cover, [STC 14968; Keynes 49 (this copy listed)], without preliminary blank, some occasional light spotting and soiling, covers slightly bowed, occasional repairs to leaves at gutter and upper left corner, fore-edges closely trimmed (not affecting text); Two Sermons Preached at White-Hall in Lent... John Haviland, 1627, 4to, first edition, later wrappers, paper label on upper cover, [STC 14971; Keynes 50 (this copy listed)], some occasional light spotting and soiling, tear to L1, wrappers worn with some loss; An Exposition Upon The Lords Prayer... John Haviland, and... to be sold by John Partridge, 1628, first edition, contemporary speckled calf gilt, [STC 14965; Keynes 51 (this copy listed)], tear to 2O2, binding rubbed, lacking ties, some loss to end-papers; An Exposition Upon The Lords Prayer... Anne Griffin, 1634, second edition, second issue, twentieth-century half morocco, marbled boards by Birdsall and Son, [STC 14967; Keynes 53], lacking preliminary and final blanks (A4 and 3B4), staining to 2F1-2H1, hole to 2V3, extremities worn; both 4to, some occasional light spotting and soiling; A Sermon Preached at Lewis in the Diocess of Chichester... For Henry Herringman, 1663, 4to, first edition, later half sheep, marbled boards, [Wing K506; Keynes 59 (this copy listed)], without preliminary blank, licence leaf at end belonging to another work, some occasional light spotting and soiling, extremities rubbed; [together with:] [King, John and Henry.] Two Sermons. I.L[ichfield]. and W. T[urner]. for William Turner, 1625, 4to, first edition, modern boards, paper label on upper cover, [STC 14972; Keynes 48 (this copy listed)], some occasional light spotting and soiling, covers slightly bowed, occasional repairs to leaves at gutter, occasional trimming to lower edge (6)

[All volumes:] John Sparrow, book-label (his sale at Christie's, 21 October 1992, lot 191); [A Sermon of Deliverance, 1626):] Robert Mylne (?the antiquary, ?1643-1747), erased ownership inscription and annotations on title; [An Exposition, 1628:] Jeremy Gell, faded contemporary signature on title-page (possibly the Gell family of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire); [An Exposition, 1634:] Henry Bradshawe, signature; [A Sermon Preached at Lewis (1663):] Joseph Spear, annotations on title "June 18 13"

Keynes notes of John and Henry King's Two Sermons that "library catalogues sometimes give Henry King as the author of both sermons (e.g. BL, ULC)..." It contains Henry King's sermon 'David's Enlargement' and John King's sermon 'David's Strait'. John King (1595-1638) was Henry King's younger brother. Both were Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.

Keynes also states that page 70 of A Sermon of Deliverance "is misnumbered 07". This is not the case in this copy.