Search Results: Titles starting with R from St. Wulfstans Books

London: Printed by Rob. White for Henry Mortlock , 1665. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. Folio. 2 ffep + imprimatur + title + 3 leaves (epistle dedicatory) + 7 leaves (preface and contents) + 654 numbered pages + 1 rfep. Complete despite occasional erratic pagination. Scattered foxing. Edges speckled rouge with some ink staining (which does not significantly intrude into leaves). Bound in full brown calf. Both boards detached. Spine with five raised bands and red spine label with "Bp Stilling [R]ational [A]ccount", slight loss to head and tail of spine. ESTCR1133. A very good copy of this Anglican defense in response to Thomas Carwell's Labyrinthus Cantuariensis. With an English imprimatur on leaf A1v: E typographiâ prodeat opus istud ... Humfr. London. 2. Novemb. 1664.

London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for Charles Rivington, 1722. Seventh edition (Rationale), Second edition (Lives). Leather Bound. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece + combined title page in red and black + 5 leaf preface + title page (Lives) + 1 leaf (contents) + ccx + 12 page index + title (Rationale) + 4 leaves preface and contents + 317 numbered pages (including two additional separate titles for included works) + 11 page table and index. A few spots and closed tear to title page, otherwise generally very clean. Bound in full paneled calf which is bumped and rubbed. Both hinges professionally repaired with Japanese tissue, spine with five raised and gilt bands, and chipping losses to head and tail. ESTCT130846. A very good copy of this early description of the compilation of the English BCP, biographies of the compilers, and commentary on the BCP. Sparrow (1612-1685) was an English Anglican priest and bishop of Norwich and Exeter. He was also an adherent of… Read More

London: Printed by J. Bettenham for Charles Rivington, 1722. sixth edition (Rationale) and first edition (Lives). Leather Bound. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece + combined title page in red and black + 4 leaf preface + title page (Lives) + 1 leaf (contents) + cxc + 13 page index + advertisement + title page (Rationale) + 2 leaves preface and contents + 317 numbered pages (including two additional separate titles for included works) + 15 page table and index. Pages very clean and bright with two worm tracks approx. 1/2 inch each through pages preceding A3 (in the Preface), then 3 holes diminishing to 1 through the course of the book, located at the foremargin, sometimes affecting the text, worming also at end, mostly to indices. Speckled rouging to edges. Bound in full brown calf. Both boards with gilt border and leaf motifs at corners which are bumped. Hinges starting at top and bottom but holding firm. Spine with five raised bands and extensive gilt decoration to five… Read More

Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913. Original Cloth. Very Good. 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 789 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in black cloth over black leather spine and corners. Spine sunbleached. Otherwise covers lightly worn. A good reading copy.

Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913. Original Cloth. Very Good. 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 699 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in black cloth over black leather spine and corners. Spine sunbleached. Otherwise covers lightly worn. A good reading copy.

Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913. Original Cloth. Very Good. 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. ix + 816 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in black cloth over black leather spine and corners. Spine lacking, Otherwise covers lightly worn. A good reading copy.

[Baltimore?]: n.p., [1949]. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 6 x 9 inches. 16 pages with large foldout graphical chart at end. Pages and chart bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in original cream colored wraps which are lightly soiled and creased at edges. Old owner's name (R.W. Parks) on front cover. A very good copy of this history, notable for the chart representing the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer.

Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Firmin Didot, 1824. Exotic. Very Good +. 4 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches. 18 pages, 4 feps at front and rear. Title page with small owner's stamp of "Mr [Henri] Milne Edwards," the noted 19th Century zoologist (1800-1885). All page edges uncut. A little light foxing and the old endpapers are lightly soiled. Bound by John Field (with binder's ticket) in modern full yellow water buffalo with blind rolled borders and red spine label with gilt title and new endpapers. Provenance: Henri Milne Edwards, Library of Henry and Virginia Walton Harry and Virginia Walton were lifelong residents of Covington, Virginia, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. Harry was a graduate of Lynchburg College, and Virginia was a graduate of the Lynchburg General School of Nursing. Although largely unknown to the general public, the Waltons' reputation as collectors was widely respected in bibliophile and academic circles, and items from their collection were exhibited at numerous… Read More

Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co., 1881. First edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches. Full page sepia toned engraving from Philip Schaff's The Revised Version of the New Testament. Printed on coated paper. Back: blank. Margins dampstained and a little ragged. A nice Victorian Biblical scene, suitable for framing.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [mid-late 20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: image and text of prayer printed on glossy mottled cream colored cardstock. Back: blank except for printing information. Series: Raccolta 316 on front, Raccolta - 7 on back. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

New York: Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1948. Paperback. Very Good. 4 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches. 232 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Small neat ink ownership inscription to half title. Paperback with very light wear to edges at the spine. A very good copy of this review of the doctrine of the Prayer Book.

West Park, N.Y.: Holy Cross Press, 1956. Second edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +/very good. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 150 numbered pages. Bound in blue cloth with silver title to front cover and spine. With dust jacket. A very good resource for those interested in the Anglican and Episcopal monastic impulse.

London: Printed by Thomas Harper for John Waterson, 1636. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2. 4to. Ffep + [8] + 420 + [4] + rfep. Collates as a-3H (in 4s). Complete with last blank. No portrait. A very few leaves with old ink spots, otherwise pages clean. Bound in full brown calf, which is cracked on surface of boards and worn at extremities. Rebacked to style. ESTCS122127. The year 1605 produced another volume of material gathered from Camden's and Robert Cotton's libraries, the Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britain. Camden did not put his name to it, identifying himself only by the final letter of each name, as M. N., but he dedicated it to Robert Cotton, suggesting his own ambivalence about a book that consisted of (as he wrote in the Epistle Dedicatorie) 'the rude rubble and out-cast rubbish' of a greater and more serious worke." If the Remaines is an ungainly, seemingly shapeless collection, it is also frequently witty and wise, and richly varied. Bringing… Read More

New York: The Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, 1859. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. 27 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. One page with closed marginal tear not affecting text. Bound in original cream colored wraps. Wraps very slightly soiled and with a slight vertical crease. Author and date in neat contemporary ink to front cover. A very good copy of this scarce early address on the state of the pre-Civil War Episcopal Church by the (then provisional) Bishop of New York and founder of the Church of St. John the Divine. One of his earliest works as a (provisional) bishop.

1914. Loose_leaf. Near Fine. 3 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches. Printed rental receipt form on blue paper with perforated top and left edge, executed in black ink with receipt number in red ink. Made from The J.W. Work Agency to John Riddell and dated April 14, 1914. Neatly folded in half. Small circular area of bleaching on reverse, not visible on front.

[c. 1910]. Loose_leaf. Near Fine. 3 1/2 x 6 inches. Printed with name and address of The Buckeye. Toned, else fine. The historic Buckeye building (1906) is one of the premier locations in Cleveland, Ohio. A very nice piece of Cleveland history.

Philadelphia: Office of the Leighton Publications, 1873. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches. 56 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining, with exception of last page which is soiled. Bound in original grayish wrap which is lightly soiled and with a few unobtrusive marks. Corners chipped with marginal losses not affecting text. Rear cover lacking. A very good copy of this scarce pamphlet which contains a discussion of Sheppard v. Bennett, an English case regarding Anglican doctrines relating to the sacraments in light of recent American cases, from a decidedly "evangelical" American perspective.

London: Printed by Felix Kyngston, for Henry Fetherstone, dwelling at the signe of the Rose in Paul’s Churchyard , 1620. Disbound. Very Good. Disbound folio measuring 8 ½ inches by 13 inches, complete consisting of 10 leaves (20 pages) printed in single column within rules. Pages lightly dampstained, with a few other small stains largely unaffecting text. Joseph Hall (1574–1656) was one of the earliest English satirists, an influential Anglican bishop and devotional author. His contemporaries also knew him as a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s, although when less visible, he tended to the “via media” made famous by Richard Hooker, the noted Anglican churchman. Thomas Fuller, who was a contemporary as well as the author of Worthies of England, wrote of Hall that “He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in… Read More

New York: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1907. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 5 3/4 x 8 inches. 288 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling or staining. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt cross to front cover and gilt title to spine. Covers lightly worn at edges and lightly soiled. An interesting Anglo-Catholic examination of the American occasional offices in the 1928 BCP.

London: John Roberts, 1714. First edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. 4 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches. 8vo. pp. [14], xii, vi, 167, [1]: 1 ffep + engraving + title page + 6 unnumbered leaves (dedication) + xii (preface) + vi (contents) + 167 numbered pages + 1 unnumbered page. Collates as A + a + B - L (in 8s) + M (4 leaves). Bound in full paneled calf with five raised bands and red spine label "Steele Romish Histor" to spine. Front board detached. Rear board holding by cords. Two small areas of loss to front board. Corners rounded with slight loss. Contains lists of monastic institutions and a table of fees for absolutions, dispensations, indulgences, licenses, etc., as well as excerpts of papal pronouncements of interest to English Protestants. ESTCN64449; ESTCT146635. With the engraved frontispiece of a papal consistory by Du Guernier, which is explained at pages 38 - 39. Also with the normally canceled leaf F8 (the text repeated, with one amendment, on G1). Other stubs preceding a1, B4, B5, D1… Read More