Howard Leonard Dd (3 results)

Decorative Calf. Condition: Very Good. Printed in 1761. Size Quarto, 10" x 7.75", 578 pages, including index, plus engraved plates inserted not paginated. Contemporary binding of dark brown calf decorated with ornate gilt tooled central panel to front and back covers, ornate gilt corner pieces, initials A.B. in centre of panel. Fiveraised bands to the spine with gilt title on black morocco label in the second, and ornate fine gilt decoration in the remaining compartments. Marbled endpapers. Condition very good, binding repaird and rebacked at some point, outer corners restored, original endpapers retained. The internal condition is very clean, a few faint spots to margins of about 10 pages, else contents clean. With frontispiece portrait of George III, and numerous full page plates throughout of Biblical New Testament Scenes, and Saints. Leonard Howard was the Personal Chaplain to the Dowager Princess of Wales. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was the Princess of Wales from 1736-1751 and became Dowager Princess of Wales when her husband Frederick, Prince of Wales died. He produced The Royal Bible for her. She was the mother of King George III who came to the throne in 1760. …

8vo., pp: xxiv,[25]-306 incl. 10pp subscribers list+[2]pp publisher's adverts at end. BOUND WITH Howard, Leonard. D.D. (revised & corrected by .) A New Companion to the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England; with Devotions Proper to Each Solemnity. By A Layman. New Edition. pp: iv,[1]-368,[4] Aberdeen printed, 1808. (Lambeth Palace only on Copac). 2 volumes bound in 1 with the 'Fasque' booklabel (Gladstone) pasted to front pastedown endpaper, half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled with sun stamp to each compartment & green leather label lettered in gilt 'Drew On The Soul & Howard On The Fasts' feint split to head of spine hinges, little worn & rubbed however a sound & very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 'The Royal Bible; or a complete Body of Christian Divinity: contains the Holy Scriptures and an explanation of all the difficult texts , also containing critical notes and observations. London, 1761. Book had leather binding, with front cover detached. Front end papers creased. Some foxing internally, but all pages intact. Engravings all have descriptions. various, engravings (illustrator).…