A booke of Christian prayers / collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs.
1578
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A booke of Christian prayers / collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs.
Created/published
At London : Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, 1578.
Description
[6], 137 [i.e. 138], [2] leaves ; (4to)
Associated name
Day, Richard, 1552- author.
Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929, former owner.
Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929, former owner.
Note
"To the Christian reader" signed "R.D.", i.e. Richard Day. Variant: signed: Richard Daye.
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.
The last leaf is misnumbered '137'.
Colophon on verso of last leaf reads: Printed by Jhon Daye, and are to be solde at his long shop, at the west ende of Paules. Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis.
Signatures: [hand]⁴ A² B-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 26 March 1579.
At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.
The last leaf is misnumbered '137'.
Colophon on verso of last leaf reads: Printed by Jhon Daye, and are to be solde at his long shop, at the west ende of Paules. Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis.
Signatures: [hand]⁴ A² B-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 26 March 1579.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 41)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 6429
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121845
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121845
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 6429
Folger-specific note
Standard state, signed "R.D." Black goatskin binding, elaborately gold-tooled and signed by F. Bedford. Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate (motto "Honi soit [qui] mal y pense"); A.P. Primrose, earl of Rosebery copy
Folger accession
181232