[WYLIE, JAMES AITKEN (1808-1890)]. The History of Protestantism. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, n.d. (c.1870).
Hardcover. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Leather-bound. Quarto (270 x 190mm), pp. [xii], 624; [xii], 624; [xii], 648. English text in double columns. Handsome contemporary half calf, five raised bands, decorative spines with twin morocco lettering-pieces, marbled page edges. Adorned with hundreds of magnificent full-page and in the text illustrations. Footnotes. General Index to rear of volume III. Three volumes containing 24 books. Volume 1: Book 1, Progress From the First to the Fourteenth Century; Book 2, Wicliffe and His Times, or Advent of Protestantism; Book 3, John Huss and the Hussite Wars; Book 4, Christendom at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century; Book 5, History of Protestantism in Germany to the Leipsic Disputation, 1519; Book 6, From the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms, 1521; Book 7: Protestantism in England, From the Times of Wicliffe to Those of Henry VIII; Book 8: History of Protestantism in Switzerland From A.D. 1516 to Its Establishment at Zurich, 1525; Book 9, History of Protestantism From the Diet of Worms, 1521, to the Augsburg Confession, 1530. Volume 2: Book 10, Rise and Establishment of Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark; Book 11, Protestantism in Switzerland From Its Establishment in Zurich (1525) to the Death of Zwingli (1531); Book 12, Protestantism in Germany From the Augsburg Confession to the Peace of Passau; Book 13, From Rise of Protestantism in France (1510) to Publication of the Institutes (1536); Book 14, Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva; Book 15, The Jesuits; Book 16, Protestantism in the Waldensian Valleys; Book 17, Protestantism in France From Death of Francis I (1547) to Edict of Nantes (1598). Volume 3: Book 18, History of Protestantism in the Netherlands; Book 19, Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia; Book 20, Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania; Book 21, The Thirty Years’ War; Book 22, Protestantism in France From Death of Henry IV (1610) to the Revolution (1789); Book 23, Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII; Book 24, Protestantism in Scotland.
Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure, all hinges intact. Some minor rubbing and abrasions to extremities. Contents immaculate. Without previous ownership markings. An excellent production and finely bound. Scarce thus.
Notes: James A. Wylie’s massive History of Protestantism was first published in 1870 and covers the beginnings of Christianity to the Glorious Revolution in Great Britain in 1688; it is now considered a classic. The following quote on J. A. Wylie is taken from a publisher’s Preface by Mourne Missionary Press: “The Rev. James Aitken Wylie was for many years a leading Protestant spokesman. Born in Scotland in 1808, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen and at St. Andrews; he entered the Original Seccession Divinity Hall, Edinburgh in 1827, and was ordained in 1831. Dr. Wylie became sub-editor of the Edinburgh Witness in 1846, and, after joining the Free Church of Scotland in 1852, edited the Free Church Record from 1852 until 1860. In 1860 he was appointed Lecturer on Popery at the Protestant Institute, a position he held until the year of his death. Aberdeen University awarded him the LL.D. in 1856.”
