The Domestic Liturgy, And Family Chaplain..
Bound in original Victorian 'antique'calf as designed by the publishers for this book, with red morocco label, gilt. Boards are embossed with blind stamped triple borders, enclosing two panels, the inner decorated; and with bevelled edges; spine divided into compartments by raised bands, with triple lines extending into boards and decorations. Marbled endpapers, all edges red and five coloured ribbon markers. Extremities worn and spine faded. Occasional spotting and staining and one pencil note inside, but generally clean interior. Recent blue ink inscriptions on verso of first free endpaper.
Publisher
Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London. Colophon: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, London.,
Date
1846
Synopsis
In two parts: the first part being church services adapted for domestic use, with prayers for every day of the week, selected exclusively from the book of common prayer: the second part comprising an appropriate sermon for every sunday in the year. by the rev. thomas dale, m.a. canon residentiary of st. paul's, and vicar of st. bride's.
Item Description
4to. 8 x 9.5 inches. [xx] pp. a-a4, a-a4, b-b2; Domestic Liturgy, 327 pp. + [1] B-B4,C-2T4; Family Chaplain, 385 pp. + [1] a-a4, b-3c1. Additional titles and new registers for the two parts.
Notes
This selection of services, collects, epistles, gospels, psalms and prayers has been extracted from the Book of Common Prayer for use at home, 'where the Head of every Christian Family should take upon himself the office of 'Domestic Chaplain.'' It therefore omits 'those portions of the Liturgy which the Priest only may pronounce' and the services are rearranged for readers of the laity. The compiler considers that this domestic provision will be useful in cases where families are unable to visit, or find space in, their local church, 'owing to the inadequacy of church accommodation in populous places, - to the distance of the church from many of the dwellings, in extensive agricultural parishes, - to the uncertainty of the weather during a great part of the year...' The second part of the book supplies short sermons by Dale for delivering every Sunday of the year at home. Thomas Dale (1797-1870) had already published several collections of poems, by the time he graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1823. He spent the greater part of his career in his native London, running a school in Camberwell (where he taught the young John Ruskin), as a preacher and professor of English at University and later King's College. Enjoying the patronage of Sir Robert Peel, he was incumbent of several successive parishes culminating in his appointment to the vicarage of St. Pancras, then the most populous parish in London, 1846-61. He retired to a rural living in Hertfordshire and in 1870 was briefly Dean of Rochester. Dale's great talents were in preaching and parish administration and fund-raising. He was an evangelical but regarded as a ''high-church evangelical' on account of his advocacy of frequent communion' (DNB). A very rare item; COPAC lists only five copies held in British libraries, at the British Library, the Bodleian, Cambridge, V and A and the National Library of Scotland.
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