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Knowledge and Practice: or, A Plain Discourse Of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ'd, and Practised In order to Salvation
by Cradock, Samuel
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for William Grantham et al, 1664. Second edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. First quarto edition (enlarged from the earlier octavo edition). Pagination irregular: 1 ffep + [40] + 84 + [4] + 155 + 160-232 + 249 - 328 + 369 - 541 + [3] pages + 1 rfep. Signatures: A - P + * (2 leaves) + Aa - Zz + (aa) - (qq) + Aaa - Yyy (in 4s). D missigned as C2 and complete with 3 leaves, Uu complete with 2 leaves, Yy3 missigned as Yy4. Includes initial leaf with New Testament passages on verso and final advertisement leaves. Light dampstains to top 1/3 of pages, and some margins closely cut with slight text losses at margins. ESTCR171582. See Wing C6752. Bound in early 19th Century 3/4 calf and marbled boards. Spine with gilt title and five compartments separated by double-ruled bands. Front hinge split and small tears (with repair) at top of spine. A few pages at the beginning and end with inner margins reinforced with Japanese tissue. Covers rubbed and worn with slight loss at edges and corners. An interesting guide to Christian living by an influential nonconformist minister, influential among Presbyterians, with a pietistic bent. Originally published in octavo format in 1659. This a scarcer first edition of the quarto format, unknown to Gordon in DNB (who lists only the 1673 quarto).
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- Bookseller
- St. Wulfstans Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 853
- Title
- Knowledge and Practice: or, A Plain Discourse Of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ'd, and Practised In order to Salvation
- Author
- Cradock, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Printed for William Grantham et al
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1664
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St. Wulfstans Books
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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.
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