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A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
by Nelson, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1737. Leather Bound. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches, 8vo. 4 + ix + [3] + 429 + [1] pages, engraved frontispiece pasted to front cover and 24 full page engravings and 1 oversized fold out engraving. Occasional foxing. Closed tear to title and following page. Bound in full brown calf with wear and old repairs to spine and hinges and spotting to boards perhaps due to the effects of mottling during binding. Small loss to head and tail of spine, two compartments and corners, part of red spine label remains, spine with gilt banding and five raised bands. ESTCT76497 A very good copy of this standard guide to the celebratory services of the Church of England for more than a century. "Though it does not aim at originality or eloquence, the skillfulness of the execution and the sincerity of purpose gave it unrivaled popularity as a popular manual of Anglican theology." DNB. This copy heavily engraved and illustrated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- St. Wulfstans Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47
- Title
- A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
- Author
- Nelson, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1737
- Keywords
- Anglican calendar saints feasts 18th
Terms of Sale
St. Wulfstans Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
St. Wulfstans Books
Biblio member since 2009
Fayetteville, Arkansas
About St. Wulfstans Books
St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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