Prayers of the Ages

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Hardcover. Good. pp. 335; original brown boards with gilt title and decorations to spine; relatively minor wear to covers; corners show some signs of rubbing; a few discolored spots to spine; some wear to head and tail of spine; bookshop blind stamp (no ink) to second free page; pages clean except a few small spots of soiling to first several of them; beginning of every chapter decorated with steel-engraved illuminated border. An important compilation of prayers through the ages, containing more than 300 prayers for communion with God, praise, old age and sickness, working prayers, death, etc. The book also contains a chapter on instructions, concerning praying and even some entries of Heathen and Mohammedan prayers.