The Office Of The Holy Communion In The Book Of Common Prayer;
£30.00
Publisher
Rivingtons, Waterloo Place; and High Street, Oxford.
Place
London
Date
1864
Synopsis
A series of lectures delivered in the church of st. john the evangelist, paddington by edward meyrick goulburn, prebendary of st. paul's and one of her majesty's chaplains in ordinary. second edition.
Item Description
8vo. 6.5 x 4.5 inches. xxvii + [i] + 354 pp. Bound in brown leather, boards elaborately blind tooled; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with contrasting title label, gilt. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Second free endpaper has been removed. A little wear to extremities, including lower edge and head of spine and slight darkening of top page edges; otherwise a very good clean copy. An analysis and commentary on the Anglican liturgy specifically concerned with the order of Holy Communion, and arranged as a series of lectures. By Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818-97), orthodox churchman and former headmaster of Rugby, 1849-57. He became a prebendary of St Paul's in 1858, vicar of St John's, Paddington in 1859, and held the office of Dean of Norwich, 1866-89. The work first appeared in The Ecclesiastic, October 1863. In a handsome tooled binding.
[Stock No. 29235]
