The Devotional Birthday Book. Rivingtons' Edition.

London and Oxford: Henry Frowde / Longmans, Green and Co., 1891. Small octavo, original limp leather boards with gilt title spine and upper board. Each opening has three calendar days, with a devotional passage for each day on the left side and the date with blank lines underneath for an inscription on the right side. Printed in black with red border to each page, all edges gilt. Long pencilled gift inscription front free endpaper, no other marks or inscriptions inside. Near-fine inscription.

Victorian birthday book, designed for recording the birthdays of friends and family. "The works from which the Passages have been chosen are the volumes forming Rivington's Devotional Series. These are "The Christian Year," George Herbert's "Poems and Proverbs," "The Devout Life," by S. Francis de Sales, "The Imitation of Christ," Bishop Wilson on the Lord's Supper, and Bishop Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying." (Preface.). Item #102644

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