Divine Meditations.

256 printed pages. 3rd edition. Printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick. "The original work contains the first 338 Meditations: to these a sufficient number to complete the year is added from the Author's other publications: thus this little volume is adapted both for general use and daily perusal." The first edition is recorded in four USA university libraries. All edges gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Contemporary owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1855. 57 x 70 mm. Original black embossed morocco; central rhomboid honeycomb motif within borders with corner-pieces - all in gilt; spine with gilt decoration. Spine defective - half-consumed by worm revealing tightly sewn gatherings. Boards bowing. See Welsh, 6380 for first edition. OCLC, 50277357 . WorldCat locates one copy of this edition worldwide (Kansas State University). Sibbes mispelled as "Sibbs" on title page, the only place the author's name appears in this volume. Since this is only the second recorded copy, perhaps the print run was curtailed or pulped as a result of the glaring misprint. David Masson, biographer of John Milton, wrote, No writings in practical theology seem to have been so much read in the mid-seventeenth century among the pious English middle classes as those of Sibbes. The twentieth-century historian William Haller said Sibbes s sermons were the most brilliant and popular of all the utterances of the Puritan church militant.