The Government of the Tongue. By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man, &c.... The Sixth Impression.

Publication details: Oxford: at the Theater.1702.

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An attractively bound copy of this popular moralist work by Richard Allestree (1619-81), professor of divinity at Oxford and provost of Eton. As ODNB has it: 'Allestree's influence on the late seventeenth-century church may owe less to his preaching or his university lectures than to the series of moral and devotional works [...] sober, orthodox, common-sense advice pitched at the level of ordinary Anglican parishioners'.

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1702. pp. [16], 224, 8vo; contemporary black morocco,covers gilt panelled with floral cornerpieces, spine with tulip and acorn device in compartments between five raised bands, gilt turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers; spine lightly sunned, lower cover with a few small patches of patina loss; contemporary ownership inscription of one Ann Clark.

Bibliography: (Madan 3047: Wing A1136)

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