A form of prayers, Used by His Late Majesty, K. William III. When he Received the Holy Sacrament

[TILLOTSON, John]

Verlag: Printed for J. Barnes, London, 1704

Beschreibung

xx, [4], 69pp, [3]. With a half-title and three final pages of publisher's advertisements. Handsome contemporary sombre binding, blind-tooled black morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. A fine copy, in a handsome contemporary sombre binding (albeit with a modicum of gilt on the turn-ins), of the first edition of sometime Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson's (1630-1694) Eucharistic prayers composed whilst serving William of Orange as Clerk of the Closet; with a preface by bibliophile, Bishop of Norwich, and former Royal Chaplain to William III, John Moore (1646-1714). A second edition, with the addition of 'A prayer his Majesty made use of after his fall from his horse', appeared later the same year. ESTC records copies at five locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Lambeth, Manchester, and Oxford), and a further five in North America (Bowdoin, GTS, Harvard, Huntington, and Pierpont Morgan). ESTC T40033. Size: 12mo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ20564

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A form of prayers, Used by His Late Majesty,...

Verlag: Printed for J. Barnes, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1704

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: First edition.