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The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution : described in the history of the life and death of the ever blessed Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world : with considerations and discourses upon the severall parts of the story, and prayers fitted to the severall mysteries : in three parts, with many additionals / by Jer. Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his late Majesty.

Accession number
PML 145562
Creator
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
Published
London : Printed by James Flesher, for Richard Royston, at the signe of the Angel in Ivie-lane, MDCLIII [1653]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added illustrated engraved t.p.: The great exemplar : the life and death of the Holy Jesus ... [quotation in Greek]. London : Printed for R. Royston at the Angell in Iuie lane, 1653.
Also divisional t.p's for Parts I-III (preliminary t.p. and t.p. for Part I printed in red and black.)
Frontispiece: engraved portrait of Jeremy Taylor, signed P. Lombart, sculpsit.
Engraved t.p. and 10 plates by W. Faithorne.
Signatures: *⁶ (*1 blank, *2 verso blank), A-B⁶, C⁴, c⁴, (c4 verso blank), D-U⁶, (D1, D6 verso, F1 verso, G3, M6 verso, N3 verso blank), X³ (X2-3 versos blank), Nn³, Y-Z⁶, Aa-Mm⁶ (Aa4, Mm6 versos blank), Nn-Zz⁶, Aaa-Eee⁶) Ccc6 verso blank), Fff⁴ (Fff4 verso blank).
Title in red and black; initials; head-pieces.
Includes publisher's advertisements (1 p.) at end of text.
Last page blank.
Includes index.
Description
[50], 568, [2] p., [11] folded leaves of plates : ill., port. (engraving) ; 30 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Clarence S. Bemens; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Black morocco by F. Bedford.
Classification
Department