Very scarce and desirable work on the triumph of Christ over Satan on behalf of the people of God; a rare sustained eschatological exposition of the period.  WOW 491 years old!!

Thomas Taylor [1576-1632] was educated at Cambridge, where he was chosen fellow. The son of pious parents of independent tendencies, his father having shown generosity to silenced ministers as the recorder in their hometown of Richmond [Yorkshire]. He was also publicly sympathetic to and generous toward exiles of the persecuted Scottish church

Taylor, Thomas. Christ's Victorie Over the Dragon: Or, Satan's Downfall: Shewing the Glorious Conquests of Our Saviour for His Poore Church, against the Great Persecutors. In a Plaine and Pithy Exposition of the Twelfth Chapter of S. John's Revelation. Delivered in Sundry Lectures by that Late Faithful Servant of God, Thomas Taylor, Doctor in Divinitie, and Pastor of Aldermanbury London. Perfected and Finished a Little before His Death. London. Printed by M. F. for R. Dawlman, at the Signe of the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Churchyard. 1633. 855pp + Catalogue. 

A very scarce survivor in good condition, with faults. Recently bound in a very handsome, period appropriate full calf binding. Title with some tears and chips, early inscription of Asahel Mathews. All remaining text is handled and tone with occasional tears in margin. Lacks four leaves, leaves 15/16; 49/50; 63/64; and 473/474. Faulty, but exceptionally rare on the market.