Of domesticall duties : eight treatises ... / by William Gouge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gouge, William, 1578-1653.

Contributor:

Miller, George, -1646, printer.

Brewster, Edward, -1647, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics--Early works to 1800.

Christian ethics.

Families--Religious life--Early works to 1800.

Families.

Households--Early works to 1800.

Households.

Families--Religious life.

Penn Provenance:

Massie, Richard, 1715-1770 (autograph) (inscription) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Snead, Peter (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Snead, Jhon (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Mason, Lennox (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 704 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Edition:

The third edition, whereunto are added patterns of prayer for the severall members of a family, gathered out of the severall treatises of domesticall duties, and an alphabeticall index.

Fingerprint:

e-re c.c. h.ly miNe (3) 1634 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster ..., 1634.

Contents:

(from title page) I. An exposition of that part of Scripture of which domesticall duties are raised

II. 1. A right conjunction of man and wife. 2. Common-mutuall duties betwixt man and wife

III. Particular duties of wives

IV. Particular duties of husbands

V. Duties of children

VI. Duties of parents

VII. Duties of servants

VIII. Duties of masters.

Notes:

An expansion of the sermon on Ephesians in his "An exposition of the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospell". Cf. ESTC.

Title page transposed: contents and edition statement appear before author statement.

The second edition was printed as part of his "Workes", 1627.

Apparently intended to be issued with his "Workes", 1639, but not present in any known copy.

Signatures: *⁸ a⁴ B-3A⁸.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of "Rich[ar]d Massie Esq. of Coddington Cheshire" on front pastedown. The bookplate probably belonged to Richard Massie (1715-1770) and was designed in Jacobean style around the year 1730. Cf. W.J. Hardy, Book Plates, London 1897.

Culture Class Collection copy has several ownership inscriptions on title page: "Richard Massie [?]ay-Hall 1749", "Peter Snead" and "Mary Jones of Pantiochyn[?] 1728", some of them written twice.

Culture Class Collection copy has ownership inscriptions: "Peter Snead his booke", "Peter Snead is true owner of this booke", "Jhon[?] Snead 1646" on verso of leaf *6.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 12121

ESTC S103292

OCLC:

59882074