ABBA Raymond

Principles of Christian Worship. With Special Reference to the Free Churches.

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1957. 8vo., First Edition, very small signature on front free endpaper; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly dust-soiled and frayed at extremities.

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ALLESTREE] [Richard

The New Whole Duty of Man. Containing the Faith as well as Practice of a Christian: made easy for the Practice of the Present Age, as the Old Whole Duty of Man was design'd for those unhappy Times in which it was written. CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

W. Bent,, [1816]. Roy. 8vo., with a fine engraved frontispiece, very neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; contemporary full calf, back with eight double rules in gilt, second compartment with original red leather label lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound) else a remarkably crisp, clean copy. The frontispiece depicts Jesus Christ holding a scroll headed 'The Christian Faith' accompanied by Moses with the Tablets, above these two figures a number of cherubs disport themselves in the sky. The Royalist divine Richard Allestree is generally regarded as the primary, if not sole, author, an attribution first given in Nichols' Anecdotes, ii. 603.

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ALLESTREE] [Richard

The Whole Duty of Man, laid down in a plain and familiar Way, for the Use of All, but especially the meanest Reader. Divided into Chapters: One whereof being read every Lord's Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the Year. A New Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

C & J Rivington,, 1824. Sm. 8vo., contemporary full tree calf, SPCK roundel blocked in blind on upper board, back with six bands ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, an unusually bright, clean copy. Complete with half-title, and with the contemporary trade stamp of John Bird, bookbinder of Hatton Garden, on front paste-down. The Rivingtons were at this stage booksellers to SPCK. The Royalist divine Richard Allestree is generally regarded as the primary, if not sole, author, an attribution first given in Nichols' Anecdotes, ii. 603. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.

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ALLESTREE] [Richard

The Whole Duty of Man. laid down in a plain and familiar Way, for the Use of All, but especially the meanest Reader. Divided into XVII Chapters. Necessary for all Families. With Private Devotions for several Occasions. IN CONTEMPORARY PANELLED CALF

Printed for John Eyres, William Mount and Thomas Page,, 1735. 8vo., [?Second Edition], on laid paper, with fine woodcut frontispiece, and woodcut and printed titles, lengthy eighteenth century family succession on front and rear blank preliminaries, pencilled note on woodcut title; strongly bound in contemporary panelled calf, boards framed and blocked in blind, red sprinkled edges, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, boards moderately age-worn but newly furbished, a very good,crisp, clean copy in elegantly restored period binding. With the 'Moses' frontispiece and 'Cherubim' title, and complete with final advertisement leaf (often missing). 'Eyres' in imprint should read 'Eyre'. Title of 'Private Devotions' dated 1764 but with continuous pagination. Crisp copy of one of the leading Anglican devotional works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author [by popular consensus] was a tutor to Milton and author of several other devotional works. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. ESTC T26177 (recording the first edition of 1658).

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ALLESTREE] [Richard

The Whole Duty of Man. laid down in a plain and familiar Way, for the Use of All, but especially the meanest Reader, divided into XVII Chapters: one whereof being read every Lord's Day, the Whole may be read over thrice in the Year. Necessary for all Families. New Edition. THE SPCK ALLESTREE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

SPCK,, 1838. 8vo., neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original publisher's binding of full black roan, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, back with flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. The SPCK edition is (unaccountably) far scarcer that the usual 1838 edition revised by Bent. Includes Private Devotions for several Occasions. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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ALLITT John Stewart

The Wonder and Glory of Felicity. (on reading the 'Dobell' Poems of Thomas Traherne). NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Privately Printed,, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Transcript of a lecture given on 31 October 1994 at the Temenos Academy, Regents Park, London. VERY SCARCE.

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APOCRYPHA.

The Books called Apocrypha. according to the Authorised Version. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [c.1955]. 8vo., text in double column, neat signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers mildly browned; navy cloth boards, gilt back, blue edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 31674

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BATESON et al.] [J.H.

By the Highway-Side [Farwig Mission and Central Hall, Bromley]. NEAR FINE COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER

Central Hall, Bromley,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at extreme head and tail of backstrip. Collects fifteen essays and addresses, together with a short account of the Central Hall and its development from the Farwig Mission. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper. Not recorded by Burch.

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BIBLE

The Annotated Paragraph Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, arranged in Paragraphs and Parallelisms; with explanatory Notes. FULL DICED CALF BY LEWIS

Religious Tract Society,, 1868. Roy. 8vo., with 2 folding maps as frontispieces, 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps and 3 plates (THE MAPS FINELY COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE); handsomely bound in full diced calf BY LEWIS, sides with double frame border stopped at corners by gilt rosettes enclosing fillet border in blind, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly blocked and tooled inn gilt, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, joints mildly rubbed, short split in upper joint at head, else a most attractive, remarkably crisp, clean copy.

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BIBLE

The Apocrypha. According to The Authorised Version. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

[University Press, Oxford],, [c.1930]. 8vo., on India Paper; black faux-morocco cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, red edges, a near fine copy. Bright, crisp copy.

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BIBLE.

The English Version of the Polyglott Bible [with] Book of Common Prayer [with] Psalms of David. SPLENDID POLYGLOT/COMMON PRAYER/PSALTER WITH BRISTOL ASOCIATION

Samuel Bagster [with] Clarendon Press [Oxford],, 1829-1829-1828. 3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., neat and lengthy contemporary ownership insctiptions on blank preliminary; handsomely bound in full burgundy roan, boards elaborately framed in gilt and blind enclosing large arabesque in blind, back with flat bands, second compartment framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly framed and tooled in gilt, gilt doublures, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, blue endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. With the early nineteenth century trade ticket of Rees of Bristol on front paste-down. The works comprise (in order) Book of Common Prayer (Bagster, 1829); New Version of the Psalms of David (Clarendon Press, 1829); English Version of the Polyglot Bible (Bagster, 1828). A SPLENDID EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY THEOLOGICAL COMPANION WITH CONTEMPORARY BRISTOL ASSOCIATION.

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BIBLE

The English Version of the Polyglot Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. [With Cruden's Concordance and Four Thousand Short Scripture Questions with Answers]. AGSTER'S TEACHER'S BIBLE: LARGE EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S ROAN PORTFOLIO

Samuel Bagster & Sons,, n.d. [c.1865]. 8vo., on India paper, with 9 coloured engraved maps on 6 and a double-page chronological chart; attractively bound in publisher's black roan portfolio with drop sides all round, covers framed and blocked in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt 'Bagster's Teacher's Bible', gilt edges, black endpapers, portfolio mildly scuffed and rubbed at extremities else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Bagster's Teacher's Bible is a facsimile reprint, with larger types, of the English Version of Bagster's Polyglot Bible first published in 1817 and which made Bagster's name. It corresponds page for page, and line for line, with the two well-known Pocket Editions. The text is that of the Authorized Version, printed in double column with the references in a third central column in Bagster style. In addition to the Old and New Testaments, this edition contains Cruden's Concordance, Chronology, Tables of Weights & Measures, Tabular Harmony, Comparative View of Quotations, and a set of maps engraved and coloured expressly for this edition. A particular feature is the set of Four Thousand Short Scripture Question with Answers, designed expressly for the use of teachers. The Teacher's Bible is an edition uncommon at best, and scarce indeed in this condition with wholly unrestored portfolio in unusually sound state. See Darlow & Moule 1081.

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BIBLE

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised. [Old Testament only]. PHILADEPHIA IMPRINT

William W. Woodward, Philadelphia,, 1810. 12mo., on laid paper, fore-edges lightly browned; attractively bound in twentieth century half calf, back with raised bands, second compartment with leather label lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy. This copy contains the Old Testament only. An attractive copy of an early nineteenth century unpaginated Pennsylvania Old Testament. American Imprint 19517; Hills 180.

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BIBLE

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the original Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised. [Together with the Psalms of David]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO

Printed by Spottiswoode for the National Bible Society of Scotland,, [c.1875]. 8vo., text in double-column with marginal references, with full-page engraved and coloured maps, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; most attractively bound in contemporary full burgundy morocco, sides with multiple frame border in blind, back with five raised bands ruled in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt doublures, chocolate endpapers, blue silk marker, a particularly well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Classification: Pearl fcp; 8vo., marg.ref.

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BIBLE

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's Special Command. IN PUBLISHER'S MAILING CASE

Thomas Nelson, New York NY,, n.d. [c.1940]. 8vo., on India paper, with text in red and black, coloured and monochrome plates, and 6pp of coloured maps, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; black faux-leather, upper cover blocked in gilt, back with five flat bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, yapped edges, red edges, black endpapers, purple silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's original labelled board mailing case (worn).

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