Author: TAYLOR, JEREMY.
Title: The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying.
Description: Sm. 8vo; pp. xxiv, 266; contemporary half leather binding over marbled boards; raised bands; gilt decorated spine; title lettered in gilt on spine; wear to boards and edges; small marbled section missing from front board; foxing to pages; a good copy. London; W. Pickering; 1840. Includes small Latin quotes from Cicero, Seneca and others. The book is ment to instruct the reader in the "means and instruments" of preparing for a blessed death. Holy Dying was the artistic climax of a consolatory death literature tradition that had begun with Ars Moriendi in the 15th century.
Keywords: english literature jeremy taylor
Title: The Rule And Exercises Of Holy Dying.
Description: Sm. 8vo; pp. xxiv, 266; contemporary half leather binding over marbled boards; raised bands; gilt decorated spine; title lettered in gilt on spine; wear to boards and edges; small marbled section missing from front board; foxing to pages; a good copy. London; W. Pickering; 1840. Includes small Latin quotes from Cicero, Seneca and others. The book is ment to instruct the reader in the "means and instruments" of preparing for a blessed death. Holy Dying was the artistic climax of a consolatory death literature tradition that had begun with Ars Moriendi in the 15th century.
Keywords: english literature jeremy taylor
Price: AUD 250.00 = appr. US$ 172.97 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 120203
- Book number: 120203