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DAY, RICHARD]. A Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the ancient writers, and best learned in our time. London: Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the assignes of Richard Day, 1590. Small 4to, 175 x 128 mm. (6 7/8 x 5 1/8 in), eighteenth-century red morocco gilt, g.e., rubbed, joints split, light foxing to first and last two leaves, old repair to inner margin of fol. D2, lower borders on A1v and Oo2v-4v cropped, dampstaining to upper portion of a few leaves . Third edition, gothic and roman type, title within wide woodcut border showing Jesse's dream (McKerrow & Ferguson 128), full-page woodcut border of Elizabeth I on verso, preliminaries and Table at end within simple ornamental borders, text pages within more elaborate woodcut borders composed of several historiated and ornamental blocks, including 3 historiated series, the first showing Biblical scenes (fols. B1r-L4v), the second with large allegorical figures of the virtues and vices and the five senses (fols. M1r-X1v), and the third a dance of death series loosely based on Holbein (fols. X2r-Oo2r), a few blocks signed with the initials CI, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 211) on colophon page at end. STC 6431. Provenance : A few early childish scribbles (including name on title-page, cropped ) -- Unidentified ink inscription on lower flyleaf: "n.on.r. It(?) S. Arch. 1823" -- William Gott, armorial bookplate -- Fritz Ponsonby of the Grenadier Guards, bookplate.