The Worthy Communicant: Or, A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings, Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper; and of all the Duties Required in Order to a Worthy Preparation
by Jeremy Taylor, D. D. And Late Lord Bishop of Down and Connor
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: London, Printed By T. N. For John Martyn, at the Bel in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1678. Fine Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Size 7.25" x 4.5", 462 pages. Red leather and gilt fine binding. The front and back covers have a gilt border and are decorated with an ornate floral gilt central panel with elaborate floral corner pieces. Five raised bands to the spine with intricate gilt detail in each compartment. With gilt page edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers. There is a beautiful full-page woodcut frontispiece of angels at an altar in a chapel with a vaulted ceiling. Condition very good, a little rubbing to corners/cover edges, hinges cracked internally, frontispiece is detached but present, the internal condition is generally clean, virtually no foxing, a few finger marks to margins else clean and complete, the rear endpaper has the top 20% missing from the top and contains some old Latin ink handwriting. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011395
- Title
- The Worthy Communicant: Or, A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings, Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper; and of all the Duties Required in Order to a Worthy Preparation
- Author
- Jeremy Taylor, D. D. And Late Lord Bishop of Down and Connor
- Format/Binding
- Fine Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London, Printed By T. N. For John Martyn, at the Bel in St. Pauls Church-yard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1678
- Keywords
- RELIGIOUS RELIGION CHRISTIANITY HOLY BIBLE IN ENGLISH COMMON PRAYER PSALMS
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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