8vo. In two parts. [24], 716pp, [4]. With and engraved portrait frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. 'The book of Psalms paraphras’d...Part II' has a separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous.Contemporary speckled calf, later rebacked, later contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, worm-track to foot of lower joint. Recent book-label of Peter A. Croft to recto of FFEP, early inked ownership inscription to head of title.

A rare variant of the second edition (without the edition statement on the title page) of sometime Bishop of Ely Simon Patrick's (1626-1707) paraphrase of the book of Psalms. Patrick's Old Testament commentaries constitute one of his most enduring legacies. He published his annotations on the book of Job in 1679. The book of Psalms followed in 1680, Proverbs in 1683, and Ecclesiastes in 1685. Subsequently the complete paraphrase of and commentary upon all the books of the Old Testament were published in ten volumes between 1695 and 1710.

ESTC records a single copy of this variant of the second edition in North America (California), and none elsewhere.