PIOUS BREATHINGS; THE MEDITATIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE 1728 GEORGE STANHOPE TRANS.
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[STANHOPE, George D. D. (Late Dean of Canterbury); AUGUSTINE, of Hippo Saint]. 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. Made English by Geo. Stanhope. London: printed for J. and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. and B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, J. Tonson [and 7 others in London], 1728.
The sixth edition. Leather-bound. Hardback. Octavo (200 x 120 x 35 mm). Pp. [10], 414, plates. Misnumbering - with p.149 misnumbered 349. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf. Initial and terminal blanks present. 3 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Printed shoulder-notes. Table at front. Tail-pieces. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding secure; however, the joints are slightly cracked. The covers show moderate rubbing, particularly to the points. Interior generally good with some light toning and thumbing. Old inking to endpapers. A sound copy.