Pious Breathings. Being the Meditations of St. Augustine, his Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies and Manual. To Which are Added, Select Contemplations from St. Anselm and St. Bernard
London: J. Knapton and H. Clements; R. Parker; J. Sprint; G. Harris, 1708. Third edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-414, [2] pp. Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century full tree calf with a gold-tooled border on each board, gold tooling to the boards' edges and to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gold tooling and lettering; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with three plates. Made English [translated] by Geo. Stanhope. ESTC N20305. Lowndes I 87. St. Augustine of Hippo was one of the most prolific Latin authors, and lived and wrote during the end of the western Roman Empire. His work is enormously influential on most denominations of Christianity. His writings would shape the early and late Middle Ages, as the western world moved away from Greek and Roman ideals to a worldview centered on Christianity and the teachings of the church. ESTC notes that the work in this volume is in fact spuriously attributed to the Bishop. Very Good. Item #000017207
The front joint with a partial split but holding, the leaves quite clean.
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