By Jenny-Lyn de Klerk
In Law and Grace, one of his Bunyan’s most theologically technical works, he presents his view of covenant theology, which was probably influenced by his reading of Luther. This second edition is signed by a woman who was given the book by her father: “Mary Adams Her Book given by her father This book was given me by my father dear that I may sarve the Lord With Joy and fear and not to Look but understand the same that I may mount upon the wings of fame.”
Source: Allison Library, Regent College. Shelf mark BT 760 .B86 1701 JRA RARE. Photographs by Jenny-Lyn de Klerk.
Early Modern Female Book Ownership 