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Book - Sermons, or Homilies - circa. 1861, Select Homilies

  • Title: Select Homilies. Imprinted border around the edges

    Front Cover - leather hardcover

  • Front cover showing title and border detail

    Front cover closer picture showing title and border detail

  • Spine and front cover. Spine has tearing and stains from use.

    Spine and front cover.

  • Page is torn out between front cover and introduction page.

    Inside front cover and Introduction page

  • A closer image of certificate inside front cover. Printed and hand written text.

    A closer image of certificate inside front cover

  • Preface and example of Chapter 1. Black text on white paper.

    Preface and example of Chapter 1- First Homily of the United Church of England and Ireland

  • Last page and back cover - examples of use and deterioration

    Last page and back cover - Water staining and handwritten text

  • Dark green and brown. Water stains and what appears to be mould growth. Imprinted border around the edges

    Back cover - leather hardcover

  • Title: Select Homilies. Imprinted border around the edges
  • Front cover showing title and border detail
  • Spine and front cover. Spine has tearing and stains from use.
  • Page is torn out between front cover and introduction page.
  • A closer image of certificate inside front cover. Printed and hand written text.
  • Preface and example of Chapter 1. Black text on white paper.
  • Last page and back cover - examples of use and deterioration
  • Dark green and brown. Water stains and what appears to be mould growth. Imprinted border around the edges

Physical description

The book has a dark green and brown leather hardback cover. There are also water stains and what appears to be mould growth. The cover has an Imprinted border around the edges of the title. The spine is torn at the top and bottom. A page is torn out between front cover and introduction page. The pages have stains from use and some foxing.

Inscriptions & markings

Inside front cover has a glued-on certificate which reads:
Presented by the Prayer-Book and Homily Society this 7th day of October 1861 to Thos (Thomas) Moorfoot for his use embarking on board the ship Agincourt Captain Tickell lying in the Port of London, and bound to Melbourne

Thomas Seaward
Visiting Secretary

Society’s Office
18, Salisbury Square, London

Handwritten
Presented to Thos (Thomas) Moorfoot on the 7th day of October 1861

Summary

On May 20 1812, a group of Church of England evangelical clergy & laity met in The Freemasons' Tavern in Great Queen Street, London, to form "The Prayer Book and Homily Society." The founders were also members of the Church Missionary Society (founded 1799) and the British and Foreign Bible Society (founded 1804).

The purpose of this Society was to print and distribute the Book of Common Prayer (1662) in English and in other languages, as needed by missionaries; and also to publish "The Book of Homilies" which is referred to in "The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion" as a source of the foundational doctrine of the Church of England by law established.

The Society published the Prayer Book in at least 12 languages and seems to have been at the peak of its activity in 1828-1833. The Homilies were only published in English and in editions without the critical apparatus.

http://pbs1928.blogspot.com/2003/01/prayer-book-homily-society.html

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