EARLY FEMALE OWNERSHIP
A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation, In order to our Worthy Receiving the Holy Communion...
London.
Printed by Rider & Weed, [s.d., c.1810?]
12mo.
60pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's drab paper boards. Extremities worn and soiled, without spine panel. Hinges exposed, without free-endpapers, early inked gift inscription to verso of frontispiece: 'Jane Young / the gift of Mrs Chandler'.
An unsophisticated copy, with indication of female ownership, of an early nineteenth century edition of an immensely popular devotional manual for the proper reception of the Eucharist, commonly attributed to William Vickers (fl. 1707-1711).
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 23177