Divine Providence Manifested in the The History of Great Britain (1816)

O'Sullivan, Samuel. The Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in the Principal Transactions Religious and Political, connected with The History of Great Britain from the Reformation to the Revolution in 1688. Dublin: Printed by J. Carrick, 1816. First Edition. [10660] Brown leather spines & corners, red leather title label, marbled boards, 21.5 x 14 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). Binding is scuffed and worn, with cracked joints, boards are still attached. Margin tear and bottom corner loss to the title page. viii., 221, [2] generally clean pages, infrequent pencil marginalia, several indecipherable signatures on the tp, text block is tight. Good. Hardcover. "The subject is very important and interesting, and the design may be considered new. For though many writers have incidentally alluded to the happy arrangement of affairs which facilitated the Reformation...none have given the subject that enlarged and ample consideration, which its importance demands, or furnished proofs of a reg