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 (printer); Chiswick Press
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Women -- Prayer-books and devotions.
Genres: Specimens.; Prayer-books 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, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, are fac-similes of wood-cuts in that work."--P. [5].

With the same setting of type and most of the same or similar borders, head-pieces and tail-pieces as an 1856 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 0160.

Charles Whittingham printed at the "Chiswick Press".  Cf. Ing, Janet Thompson.  Charles Whittingham the Younger and the Chiswick Press, 1985.

MASS copy: Bound in yellow-gold cord-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges.  With gauffered edges.  With red painted endpapers.  Lacking front free endpaper.  With presentation inscription dated 1855.