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A Companion For The Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England: With the Collects and Prayers for each Solemnity. The Tenth Edition.
by NELSON, Rob.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Printed by W. Bowyer for W. Churchill, at the Black Swan, 1717 10th. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Polished calf leather boards with gilt line edging. Later spine with decorative raised banding and gilt title lettering. In very good condition. Boards darkened, edges rubbed/bumped and corners chipped. Spine professionally repaired/rebacked with later leather to spine. Later endpapers, considerately bound at front to show original inscription on front board; “Susanna Hatley, now the Wife of Sheppard Frere.” Edges of endpapers darkened. Main frontis plate darkened and foxed with small chip to corner, foxing to main title page. Some minor foxing and handling marks to pages else overall pages clean and bright, binding tight and sound. Second plate has some darkening around edges but free of foxing. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 22pp Preface + 430 to 636pp (2 parts: Festivals & Fasts) + Index. Illustrated with TWO B&W engraved frontis plates.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91043
- Title
- A Companion For The Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England: With the Collects and Prayers for each Solemnity. The Tenth Edition.
- Author
- NELSON, Rob.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Printed by W. Bowyer for W. Churchill, at the Black Swan, 1717 10th
- Keywords
- BIBLE NELSON, Rob, A Companion For The Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, With the Collects and Prayers for each Solemnity, 1717, The Tenth Edition, W. Bowyer, W. Churchill, religion, Christianity, bible, engraved plates, frontis,
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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- Plate
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