Labour as a Good Soldier
[MANNING,] Henry Edward, Archbishop of Westminster.
The good Soldier’s Death. Preached at the solemn requiem of Alexander, Bishop of Liverpool, October 8th, 1872. Liverpool, [Boys’ Refuge Printing Works for] The “Catholic Times” Office, [1872?].
8vo, pp. 19, [1 (blank)]; half-title and final leaf a little dusty and detached, outer margin of final leaf partially torn away, vertical crease where once folded; disbound.
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The good Soldier’s Death. Preached at the solemn requiem of Alexander, Bishop of Liverpool, October 8th, 1872.
First edition, very rare, of this sermon on 2 Timothy 2:3 (‘Labour as a good soldier of Jesus Christ’), printed at the Boys’ Refuge in Liverpool.
The Boys’ Refuge was a Catholic industrial school in Liverpool, established in 1865. The printing press was evidently operated over several decades, although this is the earliest title we have been able to identify: Library Hub finds only three other works, each in one copy only, dated 1873, 1897, and 1899.
Library Hub and OCLC together find only one copy, at the British Library.