The Golden Grove | A Choice Manual Containing What is to be Believed, Practised, and Desired or Praied for and the Praiers being fitted to the several Days of the Week | Also Festival Hymns According to the manner of the Ancient Church | Composed for the use of the Devout, especially of younger persons | A Guide for the Penitent or A Model drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with Sin.

Published by Printed for R Royston, Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, at the Angel in St. Pauls Church Yard, 1671

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1671, 3 x 5.5 inches approx, red leather binding with five raised bands, title label, gilt dentelles, gilding to text blocks, marbled endpapers, marker ribbon, illus. portrait frontis, and second frontis with allegorical figure, and with title 'The Guide of Infant - Devotion together with a Guide for the Penitent' | comprising frontis. portrait, second frontis/ title page, main title page 'A Choice Manual.', intro. 'To the Pious and Devout Reader' (12 pages), main text with header 'A Guide to Devotion', includes short catechism, An Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, Agenda or Things to be Done, A Short Method of Peace and Holiness with A Manual of Daily Prayers fitted to the Days of The Week, A Form of Prayer (paraphrase of The Lord's Prayer), Litanies for All Things and Persons (pp 1 - 112 - please note there is no sign of any 'Festival Hymns' as mentioned on the main title page | title page 'A Guide for The Penitent' pagination continues to p158, with header 'A Guide for the Penitent' | CONDITION: sound copy shows moderate general wear; volume is square and all pages are securely bound title label has loss at left edge, including the 'G' from 'golden'; six pages of handwritten notes precede frontis. 2nd frontis has two holes in the page; many pages are stained, but no to the point that text cannot be read; p.77 has minor handwritten corrections to text; p.93 has a tear but no loss of text (could be repaired with booktape); text block gilding is somewhat dull | additional images available on request | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.…

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The Golden Grove | A Choice Manual Containing What is to be Believed, Practised, and Desired or Praied for and the Praiers being fitted to the several Days of the Week | Also Festival Hymns According to the manner of the Ancient Church | Composed for the use of the Devout, especially of younger persons | A Guide for the Penitent or A Model drawn up for the help of a devout Soul wounded with Sin.
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Jeremy Taylor
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Printed for R Royston, Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, at the Angel in St. Pauls Church Yard
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1671
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Good
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Hardcover
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