EMBROIDERED BINDING ANDREWES (LANCELOT) [Devotions] A Manual of the Private Devotions of... Lancelot Andrews, late Lord Bishop of Winchester [translated from the Greek by Richard Drake], engraved frontispiece portrait (fore-edge with loss, including engraver's name), with final 2 blanks, contemporary embroidered binding over paste-boards, silver filigree over yellow thread with each side and spine decorated with three large flower designs entwined with a curling stem in green, red blue and yellow threads, some stump work, stamp-decorated clasps, catches and straps, g.e., worn and faded, boards exposed at fore-corners [ESTC R16134; Wing 3135], 12mo, Printed by W.D. for Humphrey Moseley at the Prince's Arms, in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1648 Originally composed in Greek and Latin for his own private use, Lancelot Andrewes' Devotions were circulated in manuscript form to a few close acquaintances towards the end of his life. The Cambridge Laudian Richard Drake published this first complete English translation in 1648, since when they "have for centuries exemplified Andrewes's prayer centred piety and become a model for Anglican private devotions" (ODNB). This copy collates: [34], 320, [4, blank] pp; A-P¹². A copy at Folger, with same imprint, citing the same ESTC reference and also in an embroidered binding collates A¹²(-A1) a⁶ B-N¹² O⁶; O6 blank. Provenance: Janet Vaughan, ownership inscription dated 1914 on front free endpaper.