A booke of Christian prayers
Subtitle: 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.
Contributors: Day, John, 1522-1584.; Yardley, Richard, d. 1593, printer.; Short, Peter, d. 1603, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the assignes of Richard Day
Published: 1590
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Church of England -- Prayer-books and devotions -- English -- Early works to 1800.; Prayers.
Notes: LC copy has inscription: Anno 1593, [the] 19th of december, I payde for this booke ... Nichol Downton.
STC (2nd ed.) 6431
"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).
Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 128) depicting the tree of Jesse.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁴ 2A-2O⁴.
Woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso of t.p.
Text within woodcut decorative borders throughout.
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.