A form, or order of thanksgiving and prayer : to be used in London, and ten miles round it, on Sunday the 15th of this instant January, and throughout England on Sunday the 29th of the same month, by all parsons, vicars, and curates, in their respective parish churches, and chapels, in behalf of the King, the Queen, and the royal family, upon occasion of the Queen's being with child. By His Majestie's special command.

Accession number

PML 17615.1

Published

London : Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, MDCLXXXVII [1687].

Credit line

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes

Publication year is given according to Lady Day dating.
Although the binding would imply former ownership, Belle Greene believed it was more probable that the items may have been placed in the binding by Lord Gosford.

Description

[8] p. ; 21 cm; binding: 28 cm

Provenance

Bound with: the arms and initials of James II and an engraving by Busan after A.S. Belle entitled: Jacques III. Roy d'Angleterre, Né le 26. Juin 1688 (imprint: Paris: chez Odieuvre, ... rüe des Maturins chez Mr. Joubert); bookplate: E Libris comities de Gosford; sold to Bain 1884; Earl of Orford sale, Sotheby's 1902 to Quaritch; C.O. Bement; Rosenbach to Pierpont Morgan. Name in ink on t.p.: L. Leeson.

Binding

Pamphlet volume: Brown morocco, gilt, with the arms and initials of James II.

Classification

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