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Pseudo-Augustine. Certaine Select Prayers Gathered out of S. Augustines Meditations [...] Also his Manuell.
London: John Daye, 1577.
Octavo, two title pages and every page printed within woodcut compartment or type ornament frames throughout; many woodcuts in the memento mori tradition, depicting skulls and skeletons, compartments in the illustrations filled by the printer with a variety of messages, such as: "Remember death," "As grasse I passe," "We perishe all," "As we be, so shal ye," and so on; bound in contemporary English gilt-tooled calfskin, featuring a large central tool surrounded by a field of textured dots and four large corner-pieces on both boards, gilt ruling; edges gauffered in a knot motif; very neatly rebacked, lacking ties, new endleaves; ex libris W.R. Jeudwine, with bookplates, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
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