£150
12mo, pp. 340. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. One leaf with a marginal paper flaw touching the first character of six lines on verso, a handful of gatherings with a small marginal wormtrail once or twice also touching a character, some light soiling and spotting otherwise. Boards a little marked, slight wear to spine ends. Ownership inscription of James McLagan of Blair Atholl to title-page (dated 1794).
A scarce little Edinburgh printing of this volume of religious instruction - ESTC locates BL, NLS, Oxford, and New Brunswick only. Thomas Vincent (1634-1678) had been minister of St Mary Magdalen in Milk Street, London, the building and parish of which did not survive the Great Fire of London in 1666, and this text was initially published in London in 1673. It was immediately popular, with Edinburgh and Glasgow editions the following year and reprints at least every few years well into the 18th century.
