Rolle, Samuel. Shilhavtiyah or, The burning of London in the year 1666. : Commemorated and improved in a CX. discourses, meditations, and contemplations. Divided into four parts, treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment. II. The natural causes of fire, morally applyed. III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire. IV. Counsels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment. By Samuel Rolle, minister of the Word, and sometime Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge

Folger bibliographic ID: 144258
ESTC number: R21820
Wing number: R1884
Folger call number: R1877
Folger holdings ID: 131758

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

First word of title in Hebrew characters Printer's name from Wing CD With an engraved frontispiece (plate) The first leaf is blank Part 1, "Preliminary discourses: and meditations of the sins for which God hath first and last brought the judgment of fire" (a5r), and [part 2], "Physical contemplations; of the nature, and natural-causes of fire, morally applied" (G5r), each has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. Part 3, "Sixty one meditations, and reflections upon the most remarkable passages and circumstances of the late dreadful fire", and part 4, "Twenty seven meditations consisting of counsel and comfort to direct and support Christians under outward troubles", with imprint "printed for Thomas Parkhurst, Nathaniel Ranew, and Jonathan Robinson", each has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. In the imprint for part 4 Ranew's first name is printed as "Nathanael" in place of "Nathaniel" A variant of the edition with "printed by R.I. for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Golden Bible on London-bridge" in imprint (Wing R1876)

Item information about Folger R1877

cs987. Plate is bound between A2 and A3. Lacking blank A1. Wormed, affecting text. Provenance: August 5, 1921 Folger purchase from The Walpole Galleries, New York, cat. 194 ("Miscellaneous books"), lot no. 250

Extended title: Shilhavtiyah or, The burning of London in the year 1666. : Commemorated and improved in a CX. discourses, meditations, and contemplations. Divided into four parts, treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment. II. The natural causes of fire, morally applyed. III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire. IV. Counsels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment. By Samuel Rolle, minister of the Word, and sometime Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge
Alternate titles: Physical contemplations; of the nature, and natural-causes of fire, morally applied, Burning of London in the year 1666, Preliminary discourses: and meditations of the sins for which God hath first and last brought the judgment of fire, Twenty seven meditations consisting of counsel and comfort to direct and support Christians under outward troubles, Sixty one meditations, and reflections upon the most remarkable passages and circumstances of the late dreadful fire

Meditations Great Fire, London, England, 1666

author: Rolle, Samuel, active 1657-1678