CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon Press, By W. Dawson, T. Bensley, and J. Cooke, 1798. Large 8vo, 217 x 130 mms, unpaginated, collating a - Gg8, contemporary straight-grain red morocco, all edges gilt; binding a little worn at extremities, spine rubbed and with some lg oss of colour, inscribed "[R Burnet] Smith/ from/ Edward T. N. Smith/ 1908" on recto of front free end-paper. The price on the title-page of "4s. 6d." has been partially effaced. Below the date appears the note "This Book may be had with or without the Ordination Service." ESTC T190770 describes a copy with this configuration, where the final leaf is Gg8. Copies in Bodleian; Saint Mark's Library, University of Delaware.

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Book number: 7522

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COMBER (Thomas):

A Companion to the Temple: Or, A Help to Devotion In the Use of the Common Prayer. Divided into Four Parts. Part I. Of Morning and Evening Prayer. Part II. Of the Litany, with the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings. Part III. Of the Communion Office, with the Offices of Baptism, Catechism, and Confirmation. Part IV. Of the Occasional Offices, viz. Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, &Uc. The whole being carefully Corrected, and now put into One Volume.

London, Printed by S. Roycroft, for Joan. Brome, R. Littlebury, R. Scot, R. Clavell, G. Wells, and R. Lamberts..., 1684. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Folio, 315 x 198 mmx., pp. [viiii], 427 [428 blank], [8], 228, [8], 243 [244 blank], title-page in red and black, each part with separate title, later 18th century panelled calf, red leather label; some slight damp-staining to margins, with six leaves frayed at margins, corners worn, but generally a good copy with the armorial bookplate or the organist and composer Thomas Chilcot of Bath (c. 1707 - 1766), dated 1757, on the front paste-down end-paper, and on the verso of the front free end-paper, the bookplate of Arthur Biggs. The musicologist Gwilym Beechey calls this Thomas Chilcot "one of the most distinguished musicians in the West Country in eighteenth-century England" Thomas Comber (1645–1699), dean of Durham and liturgist, studied a number of subjects at Cambridge and was ordained deacon on 18 August 1663, enabling him to embark on his impressive career as Church of England polemicist and liturgical scholar. A Companion to the Temple proceeded by various degrees to this first, complete edition, with the first part being published in 1672 and no doubt his greatest work: "a detailed commentary on the Book of Common Prayer designed to promote its public and private devotional use. It was to prove a massive and enduring monument: the 1841 edition ran to seven volumes, the shortest of which is 366 pages long, and it had a wide readership and influence among clergy and laity within Comber's own lifetime. It was hardly a work of detached scholarship, beginning to appear as it did while Charles II's declaration of indulgence was in force and peppered as it was with polemical asides against both Rome and protestant dissent" (ODNB).

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Book number: 9149

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DISSENTERS.

Forms of Prayer for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Manchester.

Birmingham, Printed by J. Thomson..., 1789. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 216 x 127 mms., pp. [viii], 100, contemporary calf, falling to bits, with covers detached, spine gone, and cords exposed, text slightly water-stained; with the autograph "Jas. Dean" in ink on the top margin of the title, and that of two other people surnamed Dean else on the front and rear end-papers in pencil. The text is from The Book of Common Prayer reformed according to the Plan of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke (1774), as well as Phillip Holland's A Form of Prayer and a New Collection of Psalms, for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Liverpool (1763). ESTC T100762, locating copies only in the UK. Also issued in a 12mo format.

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Book number: 9321

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