Folio. [16], 264, 275-313, [1], 325-348, 337-339, [1], 44pp. Text is continuous, despite pagination. Partially misbound. Contemporary panelled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, joints split, loss to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, remnants of excised bookplate to FEP, later inked shelf-marks and ownership inscription to front endpapers, FFEP working loose, very small burn-holes to text leaves S3-T1 (without loss of sense), loss to lower corner of leaf Hh3, occasional gathering browned, scattered spotting.

The final seventeenth century edition of theologian and historian Hamon L'Estrange's (1605-1660) magnum opus (and final published work); one of the earliest historical studies of Anglican liturgy. First printed in 1659, the book rejects the primary objections of the liturgy's Catholic and puritan detractors, concluding that 'our Liturgy in the most, and those the most noble parts (those of sacred extraction excepted) were extant in the usage of the Primitive Church long before the Popish Masse was ever dreamt of'.