Three volume set. A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPELS OF ST. MATTHEW AND ST. MARK, IN THE FORM OF LECTURES, INTENDED TO ASSIST THE PRACTICE OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION AND DEVOTION with additional volumes GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE and GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.

Sumner, John Bird, 1780-1862.

Published by London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly (Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand), 1833, 1834, and 1835.

About this Item

Three volume set. All hardcover, H 21.75cm x L 13.75cm. Uniformly bound in contemporary full leather. No bindery marks but certainly the product of a better London shop. Brown leather boards and spine with some rubbing, stains, soiling, and surface scuffs; boards decorated with thin ruled gilt borders and gilt tooled inner dentelles; spines have six gilt bars delineating thee decorated compartments plus two gilt lettered brown title labels (sharing "Summer on the Gospels" as top label respectively followed by "St. Matthew & St. Mark" | "St. Luke | "St. John." Each with sewn-in cloth ribbon pages marker. Yellow endpapers; some foxing/toning to interior leaves; each volume with non-authorial ink gift inscriptions - one dated February 1837 and two dated March 1837 - on their respective front free endpaper versos. Bindings are firm. ***** {BOOK #1} A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPELS OF ST. MATTHEW AND ST. MARK, IN THE FORM OF LECTURES, INTENDED TO ASSIST THE PRACTICE OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION AND DEVOTION. . . FOURTH EDITION. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly (Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand), 1834. i-xvi, 1-623, [1] pages. ***** {BOOK #2} A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE, IN THE FORM OF LECTURES, INTENDED TO ASSIST THE PRACTICE OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION AND DEVOTION. . . THIRD EDITION. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly (Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand), 1833. i-xii, 1-498 pages. ***** {Book #3} A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN, IN THE FORM OF LECTURES, INTENDED TO ASSIST THE PRACTICE OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION AND DEVOTION. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly (Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand), 1835. i-xvi, 1-526 pages. Presumed first edition (no edition/printing stated; OCLC does not cite any preceding edition prior to this Hatchard 1835 imprint). Moisture stains to several initial and rear leaves. ***** John Bird Sumner served as Bishop of Chester 1828-1848 and as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848-1862. Still a handsome set which has an approximate shipping weight of 6.25 pounds (2.83 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three volume set. A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPELS OF ST. MATTHEW AND ST. MARK, IN THE FORM OF LECTURES, INTENDED TO ASSIST THE PRACTICE OF DOMESTIC INSTRUCTION AND DEVOTION with additional volumes GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE and GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.
• Publisher: London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly (Ibotson and Palmer, Printers, Savoy Street, Strand), 1833, 1834, and 1835.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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