A booke of Christian praiers
Subtitle: collected out of the ancient writers, and best learned in our time, worthy to be read with an earnest minde of all Christians ... that God for Christs sake will yet stil be merciful vnto vs
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1608
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Prayers; Dance of death
Other titles: Booke of Christian prayers; Queen Elizabeth's prayer book; Queen Elizabeth's prayer book
Notes: "To the Christian reader" signed: R.D. [i.e. Richard Day]

Based on John Day's Christian prayers and meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Latin, first published, 1569. Cf. Parker Society, London. Publications, v. 15, 1851, p. xvi-xxiii.

Commonly known as Queen Elizabeth's prayer book.

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.

Woodcuts: title border representing the Tree of Jesse; portrait of Elizabeth I on t.p. verso; elaborate ornamental and historiated borders on every page with biblical scenes, allegorical figures, and Dance of death figures in Elizabethan costumes; printers device on leaf [1] verso at end.

Title within ornamental border (McK. & F. 128); printer's mark (McK. 211) on last page.

Leaves 82 and 84 misnumbered 81 and 83.

STC (2nd ed.) suggests H. Lownes as printer.

STC (2nd ed.) 6432

ESTC S109435