The rule and exercises of holy liuing
Subtitle: in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations : together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions and furnish'd for all necessities
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-Lane
Published: 1651
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Christian life; Anglican authors; Early works to 1800; Devotional exercises
Other titles: Rvle and exercises of holy living
Work titles: Rule and exercises of holy living
Notes: Published anonymously. Epistle dedicatory signed "Taylor" [Jeremy Taylor].

In fact, the third edition. "This edition was probably created to supply the demand for this popular work, and was no doubt called the 'second' edition because of its proximity in time to the actual second edition and as a stimulus to sales"--Gathorne-Hardy.

With additional engraved title page: The rule and exercises of holy living by Jer. Taylor D.D.; dated 1650, signed: Ro. Vaughan sculp.

Signatures: [par.]¹² A-S¹².

Errors in pagination: 120 misnumbered 220 (with the first line of text missing), 317 misnumbered 371.

Title ornament (thistle); head-pieces; initials.

Leaf S11 is blank; S12r bears bookseller's advertisement between two horizontal lines of twenty-one acorn ornaments, each.

English short title catalogue, entry R184906

Gathorne-Hardy, R. Bibliography of the writings of Jeremy Taylor to 1700, 11C

Gift of William A. Coolidge ('24), March 1958.

Stamp (a sheep surrounded by laurel): Sheppard, 30.

Bookplate "Gwyne Blakemore Evans" and signature dated 1944.

Imperfect: p.195-214 wanting; added engraved t.-p. too closely trimmed at foot.

With pages 120 and 317 correctly numbered and all text intact on page 120; pages 121, 320, 409, and 424 misnumbered "122," "330," "406," and "378" respectively.

Number 1 of 2 titles bound together; bound with Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy dying (London, 1561).

In CMI case.

Bound in calf with tooled border; paper spine label with manuscript title "Holy living."