catechism set forth book common prayer (3 résultats)

Paperback. 30p plus blank pages for notes. A staplebound softcover booklet in very good condition. Former owner's private library stamps inside covers and on title page. Otherwise like-new. An Episcopal catechism presented in question-and-answer format.

[xvi], 94, [10pp., sm. 8vo in fours. Woodcut illustration of the Sheldonian Theatre on title, the catechism printed in black letter. Early nineteenth-century half calf over glazed boards, unlettered; slightly grubby and a little rubbed. Ninth edition, first published in 1679, of what the Encyclopaedia Britannica calls "the children s catechism drawn up by Thomas Marshall" at the request of Bishop John Fell. (Fell also used Marshall, a distinguished philologist, to acquire roman, italic, and Greek types for the Oxford University Press). This catechism was doubtless required reading for youth in the diocese of Oxford. The "Questions and Answers" were added to the fifth edition in 1683, doubling the book s size, and copies of all editions are now rare. Wing, Short-Title Catalogue 1641-1700, M805, locates copies of this one at the Bodleian, Christ s Church, and Eton, with OCLC adding Duke.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. 1/2" missing to leather at tail of spine. 2" splits to leather at lower ends of joints. Boards rubbed and marked. 1/2" loss of leather at edges of corners of boards. Endpapers missing, including pastedown endpapers. Some foxing. A 2" tear in pp. 2-3. A 1/2" chip in the final leaf with loss of a few letters of text, and a corresponding 1/4" chip in the preceding leaf. Creasing to corners of some leaves. ; "Twelfth Edition". No author. [xvi], 94,[10] pages. Contemporary full calf binding. Page dimensions: 161 x 100mm. "Imprimatur, Joh. Nicholas Vice-Can. OXON. March 20. 1678." Woodcut illustration of a theatre on title page. Some parts printed in black letter.; 8vo.