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[10], LI, [11], XXVI, vii, [3], 432, [12]; [8], xiv, 162, 169-188 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. (ports.) |
Edition |
The seventh edition. |
Note |
With an additional engraved title page following the frontispiece, counted in the preliminary pagination. |
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"The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus" is in three parts, each with a separate dated title page, parts 2 and 3 dated 1683; the whole preceded by a general title page reading in part, "The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution; .. The seventh edition." Part 1 has added caption title on p. 1: The life of our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ. |
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"Antiquitates Apostolicæ or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy Apostles of our Saviour", by William Cave, has separate pagination and register and a separate title page dated 1684, lacking an edition statement. |
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"An apparatus or discourse introductory to the whole work", by William Cave, is headed by a caption title on p. I. |
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Each book includes an imprimatur dated Feb. 25. 1674. |
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"The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life" includes a frontispiece portrait of Jeremy Taylor, a preface entitled, "An exhortation to the imitation of the life of Christ", and an index. |
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The text of "Antiquitates Apostolicæ" is complete despite the pagination. |
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Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. |
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