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The new art of lying : covered by Jesuites under the vaile of equivocation, discovered and disproved

Mason, Henry, 1573?-1647, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner · 1624 · London : Printed by George Purslowe for John Clarke, and are to be sold at his shop under Saint Peters Church in Cornhill · 14 pictures

A 1624 London polemic against Jesuit equivocation, printed by George Purslowe for John Clarke and sold near St Peter's Church in Cornhill, aimed at a English Protestant readership. Its pictures are ornamental woodcut initial letters in the style of the period, with dense interlaced foliage, scrolls and tendrils framing a plain letterform, offering a designer a model for decorative capitals and border framing.

Jesuits · Truthfulness and falsehood

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