The works of the learned and pious author of The whole duty of man
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Type of record: Book
Title: The works of the learned and pious author of The whole duty of man
Classmark: All Souls Theology 5 ALL
Creator(s): Allestree, Richard (1619-1681)
Additional creator(s): Fell, John (1625-1686) (Other)
Publisher: By Roger Norton, for George Pawlett
Publication city: Printed at the theater in Oxford, and in London
Date(s): 1684
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/236029
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012967989705181
Description
Title vignettes (Sheldonian theatre).
Title pages of "The causes of the decay of Christian piety" and "The gentleman's calling" are dated 1683.
The second part has a separate title-page: The second part of the the works of the learned and pious author of The whole duty of man. Printed at the Theater in Oxford and are to be sold by George Paulet, London, 1684.
An edition ascribed to John Fell, bishop of Oxford, of anonymous works all published separately between 1658 and 1678. The three forming the first part have special title-pages; those in "The second part" have half-titles only. The editor calls them "the genuine and only writings of our author" and mentions a number of spurious ones recently published. For a discussion of the authorship, now usually ascribed to Allestree, cf. C.E. Doble, Academy, Nov. 1882, p. 348, 364, 382; The Bibliographer, London, v. 2, p. 73, 94, 164; Notes and queries, ser. 5, 11, and 12.
Contents: [1st pt.] The whole duty of man, 1684. -- The cause of the decay of Christian piety, 1683. -- The gentleman's calling, 1683. -- [2d pt.] The ladies calling -- The government of the tongue -- The art of contentment -- The lively oracles given to us, or The Christians birth-right.
Indexed in: Wing A1082.
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