Author: TAYLOR (Jeremy). WHEELDON (John):
Title: The Life of Bishop Taylor, and The Purest Spirit of his Writings, Extracted and Exhibited for General Benefit by John Wheeldon.
Description: London: Printed by George Bigg, Sold by Messrs. Ogilvy and Spear..., 1793. 8vo, 220 x 135 mms., pp. iv, xi [xii blank], 328, engraved portrait ("Record Sculpt") of Taylor as frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, rebacked in lighter calf with red morocco label; tissue paper over portrait foxed, margins of binding worn. John Wheeldon (1735 - 1800) was Rector of Wheathampstead and Prebendary of Lincoln; he published a shorter version of this work in 1789. There is actually very little about Bishop Taylor's life in it; the work contains many of his writings and the funeral sermon by George Rust. ESTC T113263; copies in BL, Bodleian; Duke, Honnold, and Yale.

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