Leighton archbishop robert (3 Ergebnisse)

Single Sheet Engraving. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVING. MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME. VERY GOOD CONDITION . SHOWS A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT LEIGHTON, D.D., ARCHBISHOP OF GLASGOW, 1611-1684, AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED IN CIRCA 1800, AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED IN CIRCA 1800 , ENGRAVED BY FREEMAN AFTER THE PAINTING MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME. …

pp. 60, (ii) Advertisement. Additional wood-engraved title-page by O[RLANDO]. JEWITT. Original silk-covered boards now worn with bare patches, new spine, all edges gilt, ink inscription 'Mary Hoult the Gift of her Uncle Charles 29 Sep.1847', a very nice copy. *ESTC : ROBERT LEIGHTON [1611-1684] - Rules and instructions for a Holy life. Glasgow : printed and sold by R. & A. Foulis, 1751. ALSO Rules and instructions for a holy life. Edinburgh : printed in the year 1783, both 12mo. PLUS many other editions. COPAC records a copy of this miniature edition in the Bodleian, Oxford, and Cambridge, only. SEE Welsh, D. V. Miniature books no. 4344 and Bondy, L. W. Miniature Books, pp. 129-130 - 'A miniature volume of outstanding quality is Rules and Instructions. It was first published by Hamilton, Adams and Co., London, 1833, has 60 pages, a wood-engraved half-title by O. Jewitt, and measures 2½ by 1 3/8 inches. It is excellently printed by T. Combe and Company in Leicester and was bound in green or blue watered silk with gilt edges. Other editions we have seen are dated 1835 and 1838.'. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 168pp. In full dark brown leather binding with gilt rules on front and rear boards, and gilt decorations on a six compartment spine, with gilt titles on red leather label. (Boards a little rubbed on edges, rubbed and rounded on corners, a little chipped around spine). Text block edges darkened. Traces of erased pencil marks on front endpapers, pages toned at edges, and some, light occasional spotting. The odd page has some minor edge wear or turned in corners. Archbishop Leighton's (died 1684) discourse on the meaning and importance of the Lord's prayer, first published in 1701. Uncommon - and more often found bound with others of Leighton's works. Leighton, upon his death, bequeath his 1400 book collection to Dunblane Cathedral, and hundreds of pounds, to establish the Leighton Library in Dunblane, Scotland's oldest purpose built library. A neat and pretty little volume. 34mo. Christianity, leather binding, The Lord's Prayer, Prayers, Beautiful Books, Leighton Library.…