1706 Taylor's Rules and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying RARE Bible

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Two Works of Jeremy Taylor Bound Into One: Holy Living and Holy Dying.

- The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living: In Which are Described the Means and Instruments of Obtaining Every Virtue, and the Remedies Against Every Vice, and Considerations Serving to the Resulting all Temptations. Together with Prayers Containing the Whole Duty go a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions, and Furnished for All Necessities. By Jer. Taylor, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles the First. The Nineteenth Edition (19th edition). Published in London in MDCCVI (1706). Printed by J. Heptinstall, for John Meredith.

- The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: In Which are Described he Means and Instruments of Preparing Ourselves and Others Respectively For a Blessed Death; and the Remedies against the Evils and Temptations Proper to the State of Sickness: Together With Prayer and Acts of Virtue to be used by Sick and Dying Persons, or By Others Standing in Their Attendance. To Which Are Added, Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry. The Twentieth Edition (20th edition). Published in London in MDCCVI (1706). Printed by J.L for John Meredith.

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Bound in full leather with gilt details.

With two illustrated foldout plates.

Bookplate of M Johnson from 1735.

Size: 20 x 12 x 4 cm.

Condition: Very Good (VG+)

Text block extremely clean with very sporadic very minor foxing. Minor wear to spine with some dulling of the gilt. Very minor wear to headcap. Very minor scuffing to boards. Gilt shows well on boards. Boards securely attached with very minor wear to joints and hinges. Minor dulling to page edges. Very minor shelf wear. Very minor marks to pastedown. Large bookplate attached to preliminary page. Pencil marks to preliminaries. Pen signature to preliminary page. Light toning to frontispiece. Light toning, minor transfer of frontispiece, and top right corner cut out of the title page. Prominent foxing to pages 321 to 335 of Holy Living. Lacking plate in Holy Living.

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