Wagstaff, John [i.e. Wagstaffe]

Historical Reflections on the Bishop of Rome: Chiefly discovering Those Events of Humane Affaires which most advanced the Papal Usurpation

      Oxford: Printed by Hen: Hall, for Ric. Davis 1660. Small 4to., pp. [iv] 38 [ii]. Light browning and dustsoiling, a few spots. Bound in modern half sprinkled calf with marbled boards, spine ruled in blind with red morocco gilt label. The first book by Wagstaffe (c. 1633-1677), “a rather cynical account of the means by which papal hegemony was achieved at the expense of the susceptible barbarians in the early middle ages” (ODNB). ESTC R219492. Wing W 196A. Madan III 2535.