A booke of Christian prayers
Subtitle: collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs..
Publisher: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate.
Published: 1578
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Prayers and devotions; Prayers; Meditations; Devotional literature; Church of England
Other titles: Book of Christian prayers; Queen Elizabeth's prayer book; Christian prayers and meditations in English French, Italian, Spanish, Greeke, and Latine.
Notes: "Cum priuilegio".

Colophon reads: At London. Printed by Jhon [sic] Daye, and are to be solde at this shop, at the west ende of Paules. Cum priuilegio Regiae Majestatis.

According to Parker Society, London. Publications, volume 15, 1851, pages xvi-xxiii, this work is based on: Christian prayers and meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Latin, compilership erroneously attributed to Richard Day and to John Day, and printed in London, 1569.

In one state the address to the reader, leaves [2-6], 1st count, is signed "R.D."; in the other "Richard Daye."

One of two compilations sometimes called "Queen Elizabeth's prayer book". Includes a full page woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on verso of title page.

Signatures: [manicule]⁴ A² B-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.

Errors in foliation: leaf 138 misnumbered 137.

Title printed within ornamental woodcut border; full page woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on verso of title page; all text printed within illustrated woodcut borders; tail pieces; initials

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 6429

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I: page 269

English short title catalogue, S121845

Purchase; 1912; 8282.