Miles myres (5 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Introd. by J. F. Mackarness. xxvi, 383 double-column p.; 22 cm. (Griffiths, A bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 18--/-) Includes (following the Ordinal) A form of prayer with thanksgiving to be used yearly upon the fifth day of November; for the happy deliverance of King James I. and the three estates of England, from the most traiterous and bloody-intended massacre by gunpowder: and also for the happy arrival of his Majesty King William on this day, for the deliverance of our Church and Nation (4C2v-4D1v); A form of prayer with fasting, to be used yearly upon the thirtieth day of January being the day of the martyrdom of the blessed King Charles the First; to implore the mercy of God, that neither the guilt of that sacred and innocent blood, nor those other sins, by whichGod was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of crueland unreasonable men, may at any time hereafter be visited upon us, or our posterity (4D1v-4E2r); A form of prayer with thanksgiving to Almighty God, for having put an end to the Great Rebellion, by the restitution of the King and Royal Family, and the restoration of the government after many years interruption: which unspeakable mercies were wonderfully completed upon the twenty-ninth of May, in the year 1660 (4E2r-4F1v); A form of prayer with thanksgiving to Almighty God, to be used in all churches and chapels within this realm, every year, upon the twenty-fifth day of October; being the day on which His Majesty [George III] began his happy reign (4F1v-4v) -- Bound with: The whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. <imprint. ???-column p. VG dark violet cloth, bevelled edges, spine ends rubbed. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A very scarce copy of this memorial volume of Robert Brickel, including five works in one, to commemorate the life and writings of the Rector of Hoole. A vanishingly scarce work, with no copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. With the contemporary ink inscription and bookplate of Britisharchaeologist and academic John L. Myres, the son of the editor William Miles Myers. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and a mounted memorial tablet plate. Five works in one: 'Memorials of the Rev. Robert Brickel, B.A., Rector of Hoole, 1848-1881', 'Our Relationship and Our Work. To the Inhabitants of Much Hool &amp; Little Hoole', 'This World &amp; The Next: A New Year's Address to the Inhabitants of Much Hoole &amp; Little Hoole', 'The Transits of Venus 1639-1874, or, a Chapter of Romance in Science', and 'Good Things &amp; True From Our Loved Dead: A Third and Last Letter To His Parishioners'. The first memorial work is edited by W. Miles Myres, with the following four works being by Rev. Robert Brickel. One of the works, 'The Transits of Venus 1639-1874, or, a Chapter of Romance in Science', is a memoir on the pioneering astronomer Jeremaiah Horrocks, who was the first person to demonstrate that the Moonmoved around theEarth in an elliptical orbit, and he was the only person to predict thetransit of Venus of 1639. The remaining works act as a memorial for Robert Brickel, an energetic campaigner and tireless worker for the community. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, light fading to spine, with bumping to the head and tail. Bookplate of John L. Myres to the front paste down, with his ink inscription to the rear of the front free endpaper. Front hinge tender. Internally, generally firmly bound. Frontispiece disbound, loosely inserted inside the volume. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…