[LITURGY - Italian]
[648], 24pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf. Extremities worn, loss to head- and tail-caps, upper board held by cords only. Slight loss to gutter of leaf B1, title browned, intermittent light dampstaining. A London-printed Italian translation of the Anglican liturgy, a revised and corrected edition, edited by antiquary and sometime bookseller Alexander Gordon (c. 1692-1754?), of Church of Ireland clergyman William Bedell's (bap. 1572, d. 1642) translation - the first of its kind - posthumously published in 1685. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at locations (BL, California, Cambridge, General Theological Seminary, Oxford, St. Andrews, Strathclyde, UoL, Wellcome). ESTC T195182, Griffiths 66:3, p.513. Size: 12mo
GRESWELL, William Parr
[2], 48, 22pp, [2]. With 'Rodrigo, a Spanish Legend', and shorter pieces occasionally added to copies. Without half-title. Extra-illustrated with 12 engraved plates. Bound by J. Winstanley of Manchester in near contemporary green straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. A grangerized copy of the first edition of Church of England clergyman and bibliographer William Parr Greswell's (bap. 1765, d. 1854) Gothic narrative verse set in Chester; where the cathedral is built on the site of the eponymous monastery. The extra-illustrations are, appropriately predominantly engraved views and plans of Chester cathedral. Jackson p.494. Size: 8vo
[LYME REGIS]
Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Lightly browned and spotted. A rare survival of a petition submitted to parliament by politician Henry Holt Henley (d. 1748) contesting the election results for Lyme Regis in 1727. Between 1710 and 1727, the representation of Lyme Regis was shared by two local Whig families, the Henleys and the Burridges. John Burridge (d. 1753), was a London-based merchant and shipowner, trading to Guinea and the West Indies. In 1727 he returned himself at the general election as Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis. However, as at that time he held the position of town mayor, his return contravened the resolution of the House of Commons on 2nd June, 1685 forbidding parliamentary candidates to stand during a mayoral term. Henley's petition saw to it that Burridge was swiftly unseated. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at eight locations (BL, Cambridge, Cardiff, Huntington, Liverpool, Oxford, Simon Fraser, and Trinity College Dublin). Size: Dimensions 200 x 320 mm
48pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. [Bound with:] COLE, Tho[mas]. Ouranologia. Being an ephemeris of the Motion of Celestial Bodies for the Year of our Lord 1705. London. Printed by B. M., 1695 [i.e. 1705]. [32], 16pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. First word of title transliterated from the Greek. [And:] COLEY, Henry. Merlinus Anglicus Junior: or, the starry messenger, For the Year of our Redemption, 1705. London. Printed by Robert Everingham, 1705. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. OCLC, likely erroneously, records 56 unnumbered pages. [And:] Dove, speculum anni or an almanack For the Year of our lord god 1705. Cambridge. Printed by John Hayes, 1705. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] GADBURY, John. Ephemeris: or, a diary Astronomical, Astrological, Meteorological, For the Year of our Lord, 1705. London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1705. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. First word of title transliterated from the Greek. [And:] MOORE, Francis. Vox Stellarum; Being an almanack for The Year of Human Redemption 1705. London. Printed by T. Hodgkin, 1705. [32], 15pp, [1]. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] PARTRIDGE, John. Merlinus Liberatus: Being an almanack For the Year of our Blessed Saviour's Incarnation 1705. London. Printed by Mary Roberts, [1705]. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] Pond an almanack For the Year of our lord god 1705. Cambridge. Printed by John Hayes, 1705. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] Poor Robin. 1705. An almanack Of the Old and New Fashion. London. Printed byW. Bowyer, 1705. [48]pp. [And:] PEPPER, Joseph. Katoptron ouranion: or, an almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1705. London. Printed by Mary Roberts, [1705]. [48]pp. First two words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] S[almon], W[illiam]. The london almanack. For the Year of our Lord 1705. London. Printed by R. Janeway, 1704. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] SAUNDERS, Richard. 1705. Apollo Anglicanus, The English Apollo. London. Printed by J. Wilde, 1705. [48]pp. Title page and calendar in red and black. [And:] Angelus Britannicus. An ephemeris For the Year of our Redemption, 1705. London. Printed for R. Janeway, 1705. [48]pp. 8vo. Contemporary panelled red morocco, richly tooled in gilt, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, leaves browned, scattered spotting. A handsomely bound sammelband of thirteen almanacs for the year 1705. The Company of Stationers' custom of binding annual collections of almanacs finely for presentation to court- and civil-servants endured from the seventeenth- to nineteenth-century.
[4], xx, 65pp, [1]. With a half-title and 15 lithographed plates. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked and recornered. Lightly rubbed. Plates foxed. The second edition, printed in the year after the first. of French anatomist and physician Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau's (1795-1867) richly illustrated monograph on embryology. The London Medical and Surgical Journal (No. 77, Vol. III., 1833, p.831) received the work favourably: 'Former physiologists commenced with the inferior animals, while our author began with man, and descended to the lowest animal. He divides his subject into two parts, the annexes, or appendages of the embryo, and the whole embryo itself. In treating the different parts of his inquiries, he gives a history of the conclusions of each, and confirms or rejects them by numerous original observations. He displays the most profound erudition and great dexterity as an anatomist. He gives fifteen plates, containing numerous representations elucidating all the peculiarities of the embryo. His work is the most complete that has ever appeared, and places its author among the most distinguished anatomists of modern times.' Size: Folio
Two volumes bound as one. viii, 322; [4], 306pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Modern brown cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked. Small hole to leaf Q7 of Vol. I - touching text without loss of sense, scattered spotting. The second edition, published in the same year as the first, of a Minerva Press printed anti-Jacobin novel, commonly attributed to Medora Gordon Byron. The novel is superficially an imitation of Hannah More's immensely popular Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809), with a female rather than male protagonist. Evidently the author was aware that she was courting accusations of emulation, as she directly references More's effort in her preface: 'Coelebs had appeared - it would be answered; but it must be answered directly - a long life, even blessed with superior talents, would scarcely produce a work, whose intrinsic worth could class it with that performance'. A total of eight Minerva Press novels have been ascribed to Medora Gordon Byron; five published under the name 'Miss Byron', and three under the pseudonym 'A Modern Antique'. No biographical information for the author appears extant; however, it has been suggested that she may be Julia Maria Byron (1782-1858), first cousin to the poet Lord Byron. Size: 8vo
8pp. [Bound with:] BARRINGTON, [Daines]. [Drop-head title:] III. Mr. Barrington on some additional Information relative to the Continuance of the Cornish Language. In a Letter to John Lloyd, Esq. F. A. S. Read March 21, 1776. [s.i.], [s.n.], [1776]. 81-86pp. ESTC T190832. [And:] [Drop-head title:] An Excellent New Ballad entitled The Cripple of Cornwall, Wherein is shewn his dissolate Life and deserved Death. To the Tune of the Blind Beggar. Single leaf broadside. Dimensions 320 x 270 mm. [London]. J. Pitts, [s.d., c. 1802-1819]. [And:] [WALLIS, John]. Outline or skeleton maps of the diocese of exeter. Part I. Containing, in thirteen plates, the archdeaconry and county of cornwall. Bodmin. Lithographed by Liddell and Son, 1825. First edition. [6]pp. With 13 lithographed plates. [And:] [Drop-head title:] Davies gilbert, esq. m.p. president of the royal society. [s.i.] [s.n.], [1829]. 8pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. [And:] PEACOCK, Edward. On the churchwardens' accounts of the parish of stratton, in the county of cornwall. London. Printed by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1880. First edition. [2], 42pp. [And:] GILBERT, Davies. On the expediency of assigning specific names to all such functions of simple elements as represent definite physical properties; with the suggestion of a new term in mechanics; illustrated by an investigation of the machine moved by recoil; and also by some observations on the steam engine. London. Printed by W. Nicol, 1827. First offprint edition. [2], 14pp. [And:] GILBERT, Davies. On the progressive improvements made in the efficiency of steam engines in cornwall. London. Printed by Richard Taylor, 1830. First offprint edition. [2], 121-132pp. [And:] ENYS, John S. [Drop-head title:] Remarks on the Duty of the Steam Engines employed in the Mines of Cornwall at different periods. [s.i.] [s.n.], [1840]. 18pp. Extracted from the Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers. [And:] RENDEL, J. M. To the rev. canon rogers. Report on the practicability of forming a harbour, at the mouth of the loe pool, in mount's bay, near helston, in the county of cornwall. Plymouth. Printed by J. B. Rowe, 1837. First edition. 16pp. Without the two folding plates. [And:] BLIGHT, J. T. [Drop-head title:] An Account of remarkable Subterranean Chambers at Trelowarren, the Setat of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart., in the County of Cornwall. [s.n.] [s.n.], [1866?] 6pp. With an engraved plate. Extracted from Archaeologia, Vol. XL. [And:] BATE, C. Spence. The inscribed stones and ancient crosses of devon. Part I. [Plymouth?], [s.n.], [1874?] [3], 6-36pp. Numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Reprinted from the Journal of the Plymouth institution. [And:] WILKINSON, Rev. John James [editor]. Receipts and expenses in the building of bodmin church, A.D. 1469 to 1471. [London]. Printed [by Nichols and Sons] for the Camden Society, 1874. vii, [1], 49pp, [1]. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor to head of title page. [And:] HUTCHINSON, Aeneas Barkly. A monograph on the history and restoration of The Parish Church of S. Mary, Callington. London. J. Masters, 1861. 28pp. With three lithographed plates. Quarto and 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, recently rebacked and recornered, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate of Eric Quayle to FEP, both recent typed and earlier manuscript lists of content to front blank fly-leaves, later paper repairs to second and third mentioned works, primarily confined to margins, touching text in places without loss of sense, occasional spotting. A sammelband of fourteen scarce tracts, predominantly nineteenth century, relating to Cornwall or authored by eminent Cornish men. Highlights include: - Daines Barrington's survey on the continued survival of the Cornish language, including an account of his meeting with Dolly Pentreath in 1774, whom he initially believed was the last person still speaking the language. A year after the death of Dolly in 1777, Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English translation, from a fisherman in Mousehole named William Bodinar, stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone. Barrington also speaks of John Nancarrow of Marazion who was a native speaker and survived into the 1790's. - An apparently unrecorded Penzance-printed patriotic ode published in celebration of the coronation of Queen Victoria. - The second located copy of a morbid broadside ballad 'The Cripple of Cornwall'; a narrative in which a disabled highwayman, following an unsuccessful robbery, is seized and condemned to hang at the Exeter assize. OCLC and COPAC together record only a single copy (NLS). - Two works by Cornish scientific administrator and applied mathematician Davies Gilbert (1767-1839), including a paper on the efficiency of steam engines. Provenance: Eric Stanley Quayle (1921-2001), bibliophile, historian, and author; resident of Zennor Head, Cornwall.
xvi, 334pp, [4]. With. a half-tile, 18 engraved folding plates, a leaf of errata, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, marbled paper boards, black calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Plate margins a trifle browned and dusty. Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters', with the bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Lord Cottesloe (1862-1965) to FEP. The first edition in English of Prussian army officer Friedrich Christoph von Saldern's (1719-1785) Taktik der infanterie (Dresden, 1784), translated by military educationist Isaac Landmann (1741-1826). Having served with distinction during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), and secured through rapid battlefield promotion the rank of major-general, von Saldern, thanks to his tactical sagacity, was appointed Inspector-General for the Magdeburg Infantry Inspection, a position he held from 1763 until his death. His primary concern was in constructing fundamental principles for infantry movement to serve as a foundation for performing complicated manoeuvres; he was, however, given to concocting such advanced and involved manoeuvres that the average soldier would be hard-pressed to complete on the parade ground, let alone in the heat of battle. ESTC T113849. Size: 8vo
xx, 271pp, [21]. With a large engraved folding map. Contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Later armorial bookplate to FEP M.A. of Dublin, and a member of the Irish Bar, Daniel De La Cherois (1825- 1905) of Donaghadee, County Down, inked ownership inscription to head of title: 'Danl. De La Cherois / Donaghadee 29 Decr. 1859', typed note (signed by De La Cherois) tipped-in to p. 252, manuscript annotation to p.253, very occasional spotting. The first edition of an authoritative survey of County Down, the first history of its kind in Ireland, co-authored by topographer Charles Smith (c. 1715-1762) and historian Walter Harris (1686-1761). The work, dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane, was intended to be the first in of a series and, in order to facilitate this objective, Smith, with others, founded the Physico-Historical Society in Dublin in May, 1744. Under the auspices of the society, he published The Antient and Present State of County Waterford (1746) and The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork (1750). Following a dispute arising from moneys he argued were owed to him by the society for his work, Smith departed, taking with him in recompense an undisclosed number of copies of his history of County Down to sell himself. He continued his surveying work, and in 1756 published The Antient and Present State of County Kerry, leaving surveys of another three counties (Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary) unfinished in manuscript form. ESTC T144670. Size: 8vo
31 etchings on thick laid paper, each sheet 170 x 245 mm, bound together in early powder blue limp paper boards. Extremities rubbed, marked, and damp-stained, faint inked inscription to upper board. Etchings damp-stained, all with contemporary marginal inked inscriptions identifying the subject. A collection of 31 early satirical etchings by caricaturist James Sayers (1748-1823), depicting contemporary political figures, including Burke, Fox, and Effingham. Unlike the majority of contemporary caricaturists, Sayers did not take the side of the opposition against the governments of the day, instead devoting his efforts to supporting Pitt and mercilessly lampooning the Fox-North coalition and condemning the French Revolution. A particular favourite subject for his keen satirical eye was Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797). In this collection, Burke is depicted with an awkward gait, thrusting forward a bill, under which is the unflattering caption: 'For Rhetoric he could not ope / His mouth but out there flew a Trope'. With equal malice, the etching of Charles James Fox (1749-1806), dated 1782, is shown with a wry smile, his clothes dishevelled, and fist raised triumphantly, with the caption 'Vox Populi' - likely in reference to his controversial support of the American Revolutionaries. Thomas Howard, third Earl of Effingham (1746-1791) also makes an appearance, straight-backed and staff in hand befitting a military man. In 1782, the year Sayers produced his portrait, Effingham re-joined the army at a time of threatened invasion, having previously resigned his commission in protest over the war in America. He would later serve as Governor of Jamaica.
xxvi, 482pp. Printed in double columns. Handsomely bound in near contemporary richly gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, lettered in gilt to upper board 'Wm. Vavasour', A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, newspaper clipping pasted to FEP, extracts of devotional verse in manuscript to blank fly-leaves, later newspaper clippings relating to the Vavasour family to front blank fly- leaf, very occasional light spotting, terminal gathering and rear endpapers dampstained at head. Early inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'For / Doctor Vavasour L.L. D. / from / The Author / through Doctor Hales', and annotation: 'Judge Baillie / the author'. The first edition of judge and legal writer John Bayley's (1763-1841) explication of the Anglican liturgy. This copy was once the property of Church of England clergyman, and sometime minister of Stow-on-the-Wold, Richard Frederick Vavasour (1786-1853) and evidently later passed to his son William Thomas Vavasour (1820-1863). OCLC and COPAC together record copies at nine locations (BL, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins, NT, Nebraska, Oxford, Pennsylvania, RISD, and VTS). Size: 8vo
xii, 259, [1], 26pp. With an index of authors. Priced in a contemporary hand throughout. [Bound with:] Prix des livres rares, dont la vente s'est faite le lundi 20 mars 1786, en l'une des salles de l'HÃ tel de Bullion. [Paris], [s.n.], [1786]. 32pp, [4]. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, wear to head of spine and upper joint, corners exposed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of James Rimington to FEP, fore- edge of leaf B4 of first mentioned work reinforced, short tear to leaf L6 (not touching text), scattered spotting, burn hole to final four leaves of second mentioned work, touching text without loss of sense. A rare survival of the auction catalogue, annotated throughout with the prices achieved, of the extensive library of Michel-Louis Le Camus de Limare (1722- 1794). The library, considered one the most important of the late eighteenth century, was strong in early Italian and French printing, the majority finely bound, but is particularly significant for its extensive holdings in the fields of natural history and history of science. The collection was dispersed on 13th March, 1786, across 1,812 lots, with the Royal Library acquiring the lions share, totalling some 12,000 volumes. The present copy is bound with the rarely seen printed price list issued after the sale.
xii, 232pp. With a half-title. Contemporary diced calf, tooled in gilt and blind, later rebacked and recornered preserving contemporary backstrip, later brown morocco lettering-piece Heavily rubbed, marked. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, very occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inscribed simply 'from the editor, with further inked inscriptions to half-title of 'Walr. Bagot' and 'Mary Bagot. July. 1806'. Jane Bowdler (1743-1784), poet and essayist from a literary family, with her brother Thomas and sister Henrietta Maria editing the infamously expurgated Family Shakespeare (London, 1807). This, her only work, was published posthumously and proved immensely popular, with 14 editions appearing throughout the eighteenth-century. The collection of verse includes 'Elegy on the death of Mr. Garrick', and essays including 'On Candour' and 'On the character of Curio'. The work is said to have captured the imagination of Queen Charlotte, who apparently read it three times. This tenth edition provided the basis for the first American edition. The early owners of this copy were likely Church of England clergyman and Staffordshire landowner Walter Bagot (1731-1806) and his wife Mary nà e Ward. Size: Quarto
CURWEN, J[ohn] C[hristian]
xxiv, 385pp, [3]. With a half-title, an aquatint frontispiece, five engraved plates on four sheets, and four folding letterpress tables. Uncut in original publisher's grey boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting, loss to lettering-piece. Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh (1825-1872) and later shelf-label of Easton Neston Library (obscuring bookseller's ticket) to FEP. A revised edition, published under a variant title, of agriculturist and politician John Christian Curwen's (1756-1828) Hints on the economy of feeding stock and bettering the condition of the poor (1808). Curwen was a well-known agricultural reformer and founder of the Workington Agricultural Society which had a branch on the Isle of Man and had a major influence on the development of agriculture both in Cumberland and on the Island. Size: 8vo
[8], 20, 55pp, [1]. Wing B3784A. [Bound with:] [WAKE, William]. An exposition of the doctrine of the Church of England, in the Several Articles proposed by Monsieur de meaux, Late Bishop of Condom, in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church. London. Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1686. [4], xxxvi, 87pp, [1]. With an initial imprimatur leaf. Wing W243. [And:] [GILBERT, John]. An answer to the Bishop of Condom (Now of meaux) His Exposition of the Catholick Faith, &c. Wherein the doctrine of the Church of Romw Is detected, And that of the Church of England expressed, from the Publick Acts of both churches. London. Printed by H. C. for R. Kettlewel and R. Wells, 1686. [8], 128pp, [4]. With an initial advertisement leaf and two terminal errata and advertisement leaves. Wing G708. [And:] [JOHNSTON, Joseph]. A vindication of the bishop of condom's exposition of the doctrine of the Catholic Church. In Answer to a Book Entitled, An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England, &c. With a Letter from the said Bishop. London. Printed by Henry Hills, 1686. [2], 222 [i.e. 122]pp, [4]. Wing J871. [And:] [CLAUDE, Jean]. An account of the persecutions and oppressions of the Protestants in france. London. Printed for J. Norris, 1686. 56pp. Wing C4589. [And:] [BOSSUET, James Benigne]. A Pastoral Letter From the lord bishop of meaux, to The New Catholics Of his diocess, exhorting them to keep their easter, And giving them Necessary Advertisements against the False Pastoral Letters of their Ministers. London. Printed by Henry Hills, 1686. [2], 37pp, [1]. Wing B3787. Quarto. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting calf lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, lettering-piece chipped. Pastedowns sprung. A coherent sammelband of six pamphlets occasioned by the accession of James II and the subsequent Catholic controversy generated by his policies. Highlights include: An early English edition of French cleric and theologian Jacques- Benigne Bossue'st (1627-1704) popular commentary on Roman doctrine, first translated in 1672. Initially published at Paris in 1670, the succinct treatise, issued as part of Bossuet's designs to convert high- profile Huguenots, was so measured in its tone compared to similar contemporary publications that detractors accused him of having fraudulently diluted aspects of Catholic dogma to suit better suit the Protestant palette. Further editions appeared well into the nineteenth- century. William Wake's (1657-1737) first major publication, a reply to Bishop Bossuet's Exposition de la doctrine de l'à glise catholique, that defends the doctrine of the Church of England through underscoring the theological differences between the Protestant ideology and the practices of the Church of Rome. The first edition in English of French Protestant divine and theologian Jean Claude's (1619-1687) account of the persecuted French Protestants, Plaintes des Protestants cruellement opprimàs dans le royaume de France (1686). The work was commissioned by stadtholder William of Orange, who provided Claude with a pension after he had fled to the Netherlands following the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), which revoked the civil rights of French Protestants and outlawed Protestantism. The book, which includes the text of the 1685 edict, was publicly burnt by the common hangman by order of King James II in 1686 as it contained passages that criticised the king of France.
BAILEY, Thomas
[6], 267pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Later diced calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Scattered spotting. A reprint of the earliest life of Bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr John Fisher (c. 1469-1535). First published in 1655, the book was issued under the name of Roman Catholic controversialist Thomas Bayly (d. c. 1657), who was not in fact the author. The work was for some time commonly attributed to Roman Catholic priest Richard Hall (c. 1537-1604) however, it is now thought that Hall's effort was merely a translation of an anonymous text. Regardless, Bayly acquired Hall's manuscript, made a copy, and had it published by an unidentified bookseller with a preface implying that it was his own work. ESTC T138969. Size: 12mo
10 articles, variously paginated. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Heavily rubbed, cocked. Hinges exposed, several leaves shaved (to remove portions of unrelated articles) and laid down, scattered spotting. A coherent sammelband of ten articles, extracted from various periodicals, such as the Edinburgh Review, providing contemporary reviews of the works of Lord Byron; including, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Giaour, Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, and the Doge of Venice. Size: 8vo
[14], 92, [12], 48pp. Without half-title. Each part has separate title page, pagination and register. The second, entitled 'A disswasive from imprecations and cursing.', does not bear an edition statement; its imprint reads 'printed by W. Sayes, and sold by R. Clavel, and W. Haws'. Contemporary blind-ruled calf. Rubbed, marked, and scored, spine worn and wormed. Without pastedowns/free-endpapers, worm-tracks to head of text-block throughout (touching running-title in places), scattered spotting. A revised edition of two discourses by Church of England clergyman Charles Palmer (1685-1735); the first concerning parochial communion; the second concerning imprecations in common discourse and in prayer. The essays were first published in quarto format in 1702. ESTC records copies at only three locations in the British Isles (Canterbury Cathedral, Norwich, and Oxford), and none elsewhere. ESTC T222604. Size: 12mo