wife's manual
Subtitle: or, Prayers, thoughts and songs on several occasions of a matron's life
By: by the Rev. W. Calvert ...
Contributors: Byfield, Mary, 1794 or 5-1871; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876; Chiswick Press
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Women -- Prayers and devotions
Genres: Specimens.; Prayers and devotions
Other titles: Prayers, thoughts and songs on several occasions of a matron's life; Wife's manual :
Notes: Preliminary pages printed within double rule border.  T.p. and text printed within elaborate decorative wood-engraved borders.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrated initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces.

Wide decorative border on t.p. with signatures: "W. Calvert delt." and "M. Byfield. Sc.".

"The style of ornamentation adopted in this little volume is that of "A Book of Christian Prayers," printed by John Day, 1569, usually called "Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book."  The side-pieces on pages 1, 2, 5, 6, are fac-similes of wood-cuts in that work."--P. [6].

With the same setting of type and most of the same or similar borders, head-pieces and tail-pieces as an 1854 edition of this title published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.  One word on p. 25 is with a difference in capitalization.  See McLean D 0159.

MASS copy: Bound in brown morocco blocked in black with the title tooled in gold on the spine.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g and stained red. Board edges and turn-ins blocked in black.  With marbled endpapers.  With embossed stamp: "Hale & Roworth  King St.  Manchester".