Nice assemblage of three complete years of "The Bulwark" in matching half calf bindings. The work was edited by influential Scottish Presbyterian divines, James Begg, William Cunningham, Thomas M'Crie, Andrew Thomson, etc. Superb content, most of which has never been reproduced elsewhere.

[Various]. The Bulwark. Or, Reformation Journal. In Defence of the True Interests of Man and of Society, Especially in Reference to the Religious, Social, and Political Bearings of Popery. With Woodcut Illustrations. 1851-1852. Edinburgh. J. Nichol. 1852. 322pp.

[With]

[Various]. The Bulwark. Or, Reformation Journal. In Defence of the True Interests of Man and of Society, Especially in Reference to the Religious, Social, and Political Bearings of Popery. With Woodcut Illustrations. 1852-1853. Edinburgh. J. Nichol. 1853. 332pp.

[With]

[Various]. The Bulwark. Or, Reformation Journal. In Defence of the True Interests of Man and of Society, Especially in Reference to the Religious, Social, and Political Bearings of Popery. With Woodcut Illustrations. 1853-1854. Edinburgh. J. Nichol. 1854. 332pp.

Contents for just one volume [1851-1852] include:

On the alleged misrepresentation of Popery by Protestants; The ceremony of feet-washing [illustrated]; Disabilities of Protestants in Popish countries; The martyr John Lambert [illustrated]; Popery in Dundee; a Romanist Doctor on the denouncing of Heretics; The Bartholomew Massacre of 1572 [illustrated]; The Blight of Popery; Popish Malice against Gospel Preaching; the Douay Bible and the Rhemish Notes; Conversion from Rome; Popish burning of Heretics [Illustrated]; Liberty in Popish Countries; Papal Medals in Honour of Popish Misdeeds; The Veil Cast Off [Convents]; Nunneries [Illustrated]; The Pope and Halley's Comet; The Vatican [Illustrated]; John Frampton. A Story of the Reformation [Illustrated]; Puseyism the Precursor of Popery; The Emancipation of the Vaudois [Waldensians - Illustrated]; The Man of Sin [Antichrist]; Nunneries - An Important Movement to Throw them Open [Illustrated]; Unscrupulous Tactics of Popery; Horrors of the Inquisition - The Wooden Horse [Illustrated]; Popish Indulgences - The Shoemaker of Hagenau [Illustrated]; Father - Cardinal John Newman [Illustrated with a Caricature]; Interesting Case of Priestly Conversion; The Confessional [Illustrated]; Popery Absolving Murderers [Illustrated]; The Anti-National Spirit of Popery; The Monk who Burnt the Bible Punished; A Threefold View of Cardinal Wiseman [Illustrated]; The Church of Rome has Erred and therefore can Err; Females Tortured and Murdered by the Inquisition [Illustrated]; etc. etc. 

 Original half calf, rubbed with some fading as shown; newly consolidated and very solid. Rather a nice, solid set in patinated bindings.