Fair warnings to a careless world, . or, the serious practice of religion recommended by the admonitions of dying men, and the sentiments of all people in their most serious hours: and other testimonies of an extraordinary nature. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. To which is added, serious advice to sick person by Archbishop Tillotson. As also a prospect of death: a Pindarique essay. With suitable cuts. Recommended as proper to be given at funerals.
Josiah Woodward (1660 - 1712)
Category
Books
Date
1707
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 3116615
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv,[1],236p.,plates . 8vo.. Imperfect: lacks all after p.224. In pencil on pastedown (shelfmark?) 2/17. Detailed bibliographical notes from a bookseller (twentieth century?). Provenance: With printed bifolium bound after title page 'In remembrance of Anne Hankey ... born ... 1702 ... departed this life ... 1708 ... whose delight in this book and prayer, makes it thus presented for her remembrance'. Prayer on other half of sheet 'A prayer. O Lord God, I am a poor child, I was born in sin ...'. Binding: Eighteenth-century blind tooled black morocco. Pattern of concentric frames with cornerpieces.
Makers and roles
Josiah Woodward (1660 - 1712) John Tillotson (1630-1694), Archbishop of Canterbury