A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
NELSON, R.
With Collects and Prayers for each Solemnity. [With a Life of the Author].
Published: SPCK, 1848
Stock code: 9766
Price: £96.00
8vo., with an engraved portrait frontispiece; strongly bound in contemporary full straight-grain morocco, sides with gilt frame border, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, back with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, a remarkably clean, firm copy.
This copy was formerly in the library of Arthur Dashwood of King's College, and bears his holograph signed ownership inscription on front free endpaper verso. The frontispiece is engraved by Cook after Kneller. Nelson 's classic compilation was first published in 1703.