By Richard Mant
London   John W. Parker
6.5" by 4.5" xi, 256pp; xvi, 315pp [1pp author's adverts] [2pp publisher's adverts]
A very scarce copy of this fascinating religious treatise on Christian anniversaries and Holy Days, by the English churchman and author of the notable 'History of the Church of Ireland', Richard Mant.
By Richard Mant

1847 Feriae Anniversariae. Observance of the Church's Holy-Days No Symptom of Popery; Shown from Testimonies of her Most Approved Children, In Continuance 1547-1800.

London   John W. Parker
6.5" by 4.5" xi, 256pp; xvi, 315pp [1pp author's adverts] [2pp publisher's adverts]
A very scarce copy of this fascinating religious treatise on Christian anniversaries and Holy Days, by the English churchman and author of the notable 'History of the Church of Ireland', Richard Mant.
£190.00
: 0.75kgs / : 628M33

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Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce copy, with two copies only held at the British Library and Durham University (Copac). A first edition copy, complete in two volumes with volume I dealing with 'The Feasts' and volume II with 'The Fasts'. With publisher and author's advertisements to the rear of volume II. Featuring a bookplate of a 'Robert Raikes' to the front pastedown of each volume

Condition

In a uniform cloth binding with blind stamped design to the boards and gilded page edges. Externally, slight bumping to extremities and head and tail of spines. Minor rubbing to boards. Prior owner's bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound, strained only between pages 176 and 177, volume II. Pages very bright and clean throughout, with light scattered spots to first and last few pages.

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