The daily office of a Christian. . Being the devotions of the most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud, late archbishop of Canterbury. The fifth edition. Wherein several catechetical paraphrases and other very excellent prayers selected out of the primitive writers, formerly publisht in Latine, are now made English; and the whole reduced to an exact method for the benefit of the devout.
William Laud (1573-1645) Archbishop of Canterbury
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3124515
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14],263,[11]p., [1] leaf of plates . port.. . 12mo.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: A. Fenwyke!. Armorial bookplate on back pastedown: Henrici B. Wheatley ex libris tegumine illustrioribus. manuscript on endpaper verso in two nineteenth-century hands: (1) Tho. P. Stock; (2) From the library of the late Dr. Oldknow Holy Trinity Bordesley. Black ink stamp: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: Seventeenth-century black morocco over boards, gilt tooling on covers, spine, board edges and inners, gilt edges, nineteenth-century flyleaves attached to older [17C?] red, blue and yellow marbled endpapers. Front cover detached. Pencil note on flyleaf: Fine specimen [rubbed out] by "Charles Mearne" who took on his father S. Mearne's business (S Mearne died 1684-).
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William Laud (1573-1645) Archbishop of Canterbury