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Title

  • A booke of Christian prayers : collected out of the ancient writers and best learned in our time : worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome daies that God, for Christes sake, will yet still be mercifull vnto vs

Names

  • Day, Richard, 1552-
  • Yardley, Richard, -1593, printer
  • Short, Peter, -1603, printer
  • Day, John, 1522-1584
  • Assignees of Richard Day, bookseller
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • At London : Printed by Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1590.

Headings

  • -  Prayers
  • -  Church of England--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
  • -  England--London

Notes

  • -  "To the reader" signed: R.D.
  • -  Based on John Day's Christian prayers and meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and Latin (first published 1569).
  • -  Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.
  • -  STC (2nd ed.) 6431
  • -  Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 128) depicting the tree of Jesse.
  • -  Woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso of t.p.
  • -  Printer's device (McKerrow 211) on verso of last leaf was originally H. Denham's but passed to Yardley and Short circa 1589.
  • -  LC copy has dealer's description mounted on slip and tipped in.
  • -  LC copy has inscription: Anno 1593, [the] 19th of december, I payde for this booke ... Nichol Downton.
  • -  Special Files Project; vb59 12-06-2007
  • -  LAC aaa 2019-01-17 no edits (2 card)

Medium

  • [8], 138, [2] leaves : port. (woodcut) ; 19 cm. (4to)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BV245 .D35
  • BV245 .D35 Copy 2 Measures 20 cm. Bound in contemporary Dutch [?] binding.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44010778

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Day, Richard, Richard Yardley, Peter Short, John Day, Bookseller Assignees Of Richard Day, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A booke of Christian prayers: collected out of the ancient writers and best learned in our time: worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome daies that God, for Christes sake, will yet still be mercifull vnto vs. At London: Printed by Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1590. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/44010778/.

APA citation style:

Day, R., Yardley, R., Short, P., Day, J., Assignees Of Richard Day, B. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1590) A booke of Christian prayers: collected out of the ancient writers and best learned in our time: worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome daies that God, for Christes sake, will yet still be mercifull vnto vs. At London: Printed by Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the Assignes of Richard Day. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/44010778/.

MLA citation style:

Day, Richard, et al. A booke of Christian prayers: collected out of the ancient writers and best learned in our time: worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome daies that God, for Christes sake, will yet still be mercifull vnto vs. At London: Printed by Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1590. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/44010778/>.