12mo. [4], 122pp. Nineteenth century half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Paper slip naively pasted to head of title page to obscure early ownership inscription, scattered spotting.

A rare survival of the final eighteenth-century printing of preacher and General Baptist minister James Foster's (1697-1753) devotions and prayers - first published in 1754 - including the eminently anti-papist 'An universal prayer: Or a prayer for all ranks and conditions of men':

'But as we are concerned for the purity of thy churches, and the honour of the true Christian religion, we are bound more particularly and earnestly to pray, that thou wouldst utterly subvert the antichristian, Romish church, which thou hast permitted, for ages, to be an ungodly and wicked faction against the common rights of mankind.'

ESTC records a single copy (BL).