[RELIGION] A GENTLEMAN INSTRUCTED IN THE CONDUCT OF A VIRTUOUS AND HAPPY LIFE. WRITTEN FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF A YOUNG NOBLEMAN.

[William Darrell]

London: E. Smith, 1707.

Full Leather. Third Edition. 8vo.; in full speckled calf, with a blank spine; 164 pages.~~This follows the 1704 Second Edition; the next edition in 1708 had a supplement, “A Word to the Ladies”. The book was in its Tenth Edition by 1731.~~William Darrell was a Jesuit. amd was procurator of the province in Paris. He was prefect of studies in the college of St. Omer in 1696, and subsequently fillege the same office at Liege. He was also professor casuistry at Liege, and rector of the college from 1708 to 1712. In 1712 he again became procurator of the Province in Paris. He died at St. Omer in 1721.

Very Good binding.
Item #297595

Price: $175.00