A booke of Christian prayers / collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs.

A booke of Christian prayers / collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs.

At London : Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, 1578.

[6], 137 [i.e. 138], [2] leaves ; (4to)

"To the Christian reader" signed "R.D.", i.e. Richard Day. Variant: signed: Richard Daye.

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.

The last leaf is misnumbered '137'.

Colophon on verso of last leaf reads: Printed by Jhon Daye, and are to be solde at his long shop, at the west ende of Paules. Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis.

Signatures: [hand]⁴ A² B-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.

Stationers' register: Entered 26 March 1579.

Signatures from DFo.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 41)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 6429
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S121845

Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 6429
Bindings collection image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 6429

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 6429

Standard state, signed "R.D." Black goatskin binding, elaborately gold-tooled and signed by F. Bedford. Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate (motto "Honi soit [qui] mal y pense"); A.P. Primrose, earl of Rosebery copy

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