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London: Burns And Oates / Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1878 .. A very good original cloth binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.25" x 1.5". pp.vii./[1p.]/pp.342. Black cloth. Front board with gilt "PAX". Spine with gilt titles and old paper library reference label. Hinges and top & tail carefully strenghtened. Inner hinges carefully strengthened. Original yellow endpapers, lightly soiled, Library label to verso of the front board: "E Libris F.F. Praedicatorum Novicastri." Spotting to free-endpapers and preliminaries, otherwise clear English text throughout. VG.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, And Co. / Leicester: Printed and Published by J. F. Winks. [1846] .. 16mo. [4pp.]/pp.5 - 432. A very good original quarter leather bining. Maroon morocco over ver scuffed and darkened boards. Smooth spine with dulled gilt titles. Many doodles to verso of front board , and recto of rear board ("Jabez James Blyth Dec 27th 1855"). Inner hinges carefully strengthened. Printed title soiled and creased. Followed by an engraving of angels holding the Holy Bible. Followed by the Preface starting on p.5. Pages generally soiled ( a few creased ), with numerous engravings (Full-page engravings include: Buckingham Palace; The Chinese Mandarin; ploughing The Fields; Roger William And The Indians; St. George's Church, Leicester.). A well preserved little book.

Oxford: John Henry And James Parker, 377, Strand, London, M DCCC LVI. [ 1856 ] .. A very good original black buckram binding. 8vo. [4pp.]/pp.10/pp.62 . 6.75" x 4.52 x0.25". Gilt cross to fron board. Corners carefully strengthened. Spine carefully repaired. original brown endpapers. Clean text throughout. VG.

London: Wm. H. Allen & Co. 1867 .. 8vo. 22.3cm x 15cm x 3.5cm. pp.24/439/1p.(adverts). Very good binding. Contemporary half calf, over buckram boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt title and gilt stamp: "Library Of Dr. Brays Associates." Library label to verso of front board for the "Clerical Lending Library of Cambridge And Diocese of Auckland February 1889". On facing endpaper are: "Rules For The Preservation of dr. Bray's Lendinf Libraries in the Colonies." Clean English text throughout.

London: James Toovey, 1844.. Second edition. Pp.xiv/601, new endpapers. Rebound in blue cloth with paper label to spine. VG.** "William George Ward, (1812-1882), English author and theologian, one of the leaders of the Oxford movement, which sought to revive in Anglicanism the High Church ideals of the later 17th-century church. He eventually became a convert to Roman Catholicism.Ward was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and became a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1834. He was ordained in the Anglican church in 1840. Under the influence of John Henry Newman, later cardinal, he joined the Oxford movement, in which his role was that of an extremist pressing for submission to the Roman Catholic authority. Protestants strongly opposed his argument that the Thirty-nine Articles�the doctrinal formularies of the Church of England�were incompatible with the Catholic status of the Church of England. He was suspended from Balliol for supporting Newman in a series of pamphlets. After publishing… Read More

London: Printed For Thomas Kelly, 17, Paternoster-Row [No date - c. 1816] .. A very good later cloth binding. 8vo. pp.4/pp.676 + Portrait frontis and 6 other full-page plates as called for. Black cloth covered boards. Smooth spine with red and gilt title label. Modern endpapers. All other pages lightly toned and soiled. Engravings toned and foxed. Old adhesive tape repairs to p.115-p.116. G+ . ** "John Macgowan (1726�1780) was a Scottish Baptist minister and author. Macgowan was a caustic controversial writer, who used allegory in devotional works. His books went through many editions in London, the North of England, and America. Several were published under pseudonyms such as "The Shaver" and "Pasquin Shaveblock". His major work, Infernal Conferences, or Dialogues of Devils, by the Listener, London, 1772, 2 vols. may have been suggested by The Dialogues of the Dead (London, 1760) of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton." - See Wikipedia. *** Full title reads: "Infernal Conference; Or… Read More

London: Hatchard And Son, 187, Piccadilly; And Hamilton, Adams, And Co., Paternoster Row, 1849 .. Fifth Edition. A neat Victorian devotional book in very good condition. 12mo. 6.0" x 4.0" x 0.25". [4pp.]/pp.150/[2pp. - Adverts]. Original blind stamped cloth (dulled and rubbed). Spine with dulled gilt titles. Booksellers label to verso of the front borad; "Bound At The Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green, London." Ink signature to verso of the front board and to the contents leaf. Clean english text throughout, with pencil markings to the margins. VG ** "...There were many agencies working among the Jews, each with different theological emphases, but the oldest, largest and best-resourced was the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, also known as the London Jews Society (LJS). Founded in 1809. In 1813 LJS activities transferred to Cambridge Heath in Bethnal Green, where the Episcopal Jews' Chapel (for Christian worship) and schools for Jewish… Read More

London: Published by Hamilton and Adams, and Hatchard and Son, 1834 .. 1st edition. 8vo.23cm x 14.5cm. pp.275. Original paper boards with paper label to spine (rubbed and chipped). G++

London : E. Palmer and Son, Paternoster Row, 1841.. Scarce first edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. pp.14/[4pp.]/pp.309 .9" x 6" x 1" . Dark grey cloth with blind stamp pattern, corners lightly bumped. Smooth spine with gilt titles. Original yellow endpapers. Printed title and clean text throughout. A very good book. ** Sir William Palmer (1803-1885) was an Anglican theologian and liturgical scholar of the 19th century. The Reverend, afterwards Sir, William Palmer, Bart., of Worcester College, University of Oxford, was author of the Origines Liturgic� and Treatise on the Church of Christ (1838). The latter formulated the notion, called the "Branch Theory" that, provided that both the Apostolic Succession, and the Faith of the Apostles are kept intact, then there the Church exists, albeit in one of its branches. This was applied to the Anglican Church. He was an early supporter and influence in the Oxford Movement, but was superseded by John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey. Palmer initially… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 1808 .. 8vo. pp.543 . A very good, original full leather binding. Smooth spine with gilt banding and original red leather title label. Top & tail of spine carefully repaired and gilt decoration a little rubbed. Toning to endpapers, otherwise clean text throughout. A very good book.

London: Printed For C. And J. Rivington; J. Nunn; et al., 1829.. 8vo. 22cm x 14cm x 2.8cm. pp.8/439. Very light toning to top edge otherwise clean text. Original silk marker ribbon. Marbled endpapers and matching page edges. Full calf binding. Spine with 4 raised bands, simple gilt decoration, and red leather title label. VG

London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co.,1859.. Tenth Thousand. Victorian bereavement support. Contents: I. Appropriate Suggestions to Widows; II.Scripture Examples of Widows; III Letters to Widows. Pp.215/16(ads for other publications), gift message to inner front endpaper. Black blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine, neat repairs to top and tail of spine. VG.