A form of consecrating burying-ground. First used at the consecration of a burial-place for General Count Lockhart of Lee, At dryden, March 15. 1790

ABERNETHY-DRUMMOND, William

Verlag: [s.n.], [Edinburgh?], 1790

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15pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by C. Murton in nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, occasional early manuscript corrections to text, later ownership inscription of Christopher Wordsworth to recto of front blank fly-leaf. A rare survival of the sole edition of an order of service for the consecration of the final resting place of James Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath (1727-1790), officer of the Austrian army and veteran of the Seven Years' War, by Scottish Episcopal bishop of Edinburgh and Glasgow William Abernethy Drummond (b. before 1720, d. 1809). Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885), travel writer and sometime bishop of Lincoln, son of master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846) and nephew of poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (Aberdeen, BL, and NLS), and none elsewhere. ESTC T122407. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ27730

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Titel: A form of consecrating burying-ground. First...

Verlag: [s.n.], [Edinburgh?]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1790

Einband: Hardcover