SO GOOD THEY NAMED IT THRICE
TAYLOR, Jeremy [and Brian DUPPA].
A Choice Manual, containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or praied for; the Praiers being fitted to the several days of the Week. Also several festival Hymns, according to the Manner of the ancient Church. Composed for the Use of the devout, especially of younger Person …
London, Printed for R. Royston … 1669.
12mo, pp. [18], 183, [3, blank], with a half-title (‘The Golden Grove’, A1, engraved portrait to verso), and an additional engraved title-page (‘The Guide of Infant-Devotion’); ‘A Guide for the Penitent’ has a separate title-page, pagination and register continuous; dampstain towards the end, else a very good copy in contemporary mottled calf, joints slight rubbed.
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A Choice Manual, containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or praied for; the Praiers being fitted to the several days of the Week. Also several festival Hymns, according to the Manner of the ancient Church. Composed for the Use of the devout, especially of younger Person …
Extremely rare later edition of Jeremy Taylor’s The Golden Grove (first 1655). The Golden Grove, named after the seat of the Earl of Carbery, Taylor’s patron, ‘was equal in popularity with Taylor’s other works during this century. It is also interesting because it eventually contained all of his original poems, as opposed to his translations and paraphrases. There are twenty-three in this edition’ (Gathorne-Hardy and Williams). The fifth edition of 1664 was the ‘first of what might be called the popular editions of the book which, as will be seen, has now got three titles’ – The Golden Grove, The Guide of Infant-Devotion and A Choice Manual. It was also the first to add the portrait of Taylor and the Guide for the Penitent by Brian Duppa, which had first appeared separately in 1660.
The edition of 1669 is unique in having the poems, ‘Festival Hymns’, printed after the ‘Guide for the Penitent’, and is very rare: ESTC and Gathorne-Hardy & Williams record one copy only (Gathorne-Hardy).
Gathorne-Hardy & Williams, 22G; Wing T291aA.
