The Holy Practises Of A Devine Lover Or The Saintly Ideots Deuotions..
Bound in nineteenth century full calf, gilt; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with contrasting morocco title label. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. More [attributed author] inscribed twice on title page; inscription of Tho. Ward 1692 on original first free endpaper and Jane Ward below frontispiece. Armourial bookplate of Sir Robert Shafto Adair.
Details
ASSOCIATION COPY
Publisher
Printed by Lewis de la Fosse at the sign of the lookinge Glasse in the Carmes streete,
Place
Paris
Date
1657
Synopsis
The contents of the book are contained in the ensuinge page.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 12mo. 3.25 x 5.5 inches. [4] + 330 pp. Lacks pp. 37-38. Second section, The Topp of the Heavenlie Ladder has separate half title but pagination and register are continuous.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 2 engraved plates, one as frontispiece, the other at beginning of the second section. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes.
Notes
This book of Catholic devotional exercises has been most reliably attributed to Augustine Baker (1575-1641), who professed as a Benedictine monk of the just surviving English congregation in 1607 and who was the author of numerous devotional writings. It has also been attributed to Gertrude More (1606-33), the name in religion of Helen More who was a descendant of Sir Thomas More. As a nun of a newly formed English foundation at Cambrai, she received spiritual instruction from Baker. This copy was owned by Thomas Ward (1652-1708), a Catholic controversialist and polemical anti-Protestant writer who returned from Rome to England for the period of the reign of James II. It is possible that the Jane Ward who subsequently owned the book was one of his three daughters, one of whom became a nun in Brussels. A later owner was Sir Robert Shafto Adair of Ballymena (1811-86), who served as Liberal MP for Cambridge at intervals, 1847-57, and was later created 1st Baron Waveney in 1873 and appointed Lord Lieutenant of Antrim. This first edition is very scarce.
[Stock No. 22625]
Subjects
17th Century • Christian • First Edition • Theology • Theology/History