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A Compleat History of the Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: With The Lives, Travels and Sufferings of the Apostles and Evangelists. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes. To which is prefixed, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord. Collected from the Books of the New Testament, the most judicious Commentators, and the Best Ecclesiastical Historians
by Clarke, Laurence
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- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1739. First edition, second printing. Leather_bound. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 4to. 728 numbered pages (pages restart at 125 after 184, 483 after 484). A-5G (in 4s). Engraved frontispiece and 32 engravings (2 with double images). Title page in red and black. Old ink ownership inscription of Mary Joyce to ffep. Occasional stains and toning, but pages generally clean. Bound in contemporary brown calf. Spine with five raised bands with gilt decorations in five compartments and red spine label with "Life o[f] Christ" with small loss. Chipping loss to head and tail of spine, and small losses to edges and corners of boards. Hinges split at exterior but holding firm. Not in ESTC. ESTC records two similar editions. ESTCT105563 (1737), ESTCT195458 (1740). A very good copy of this scarce "biography" of Jesus Christ, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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- St. Wulfstans Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1038
- Title
- A Compleat History of the Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: With The Lives, Travels and Sufferings of the Apostles and Evangelists. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes. To which is prefixed, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord. Collected from the Books of the New Testament, the most judicious Commentators, and the Best Ecclesiastical Historians
- Author
- Clarke, Laurence
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, second printing
- Publisher
- Printed for the Author, and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1739
- Keywords
- Jesus Christ disciples apostles BVM Mary 18th
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About the Seller
St. Wulfstans Books
Biblio member since 2009
Fayetteville, Arkansas
About St. Wulfstans Books
St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Spine Label
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- First Edition
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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