Signed as ‘Correct and Genuine’
WICKSTEED, Edward.
A New Week’s Preparation for a worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper, as recommended and appointed by the Church of England … The whole being purified from those ecstatic and carnal Expressions, which … have long been complained of, is now render’d a plain, orthodox, and reasonable Service to almight God. To which is added a morning & evening Prayer for the Closet or Family. The second Edition. London, for Edward Wicksteed, 1739.
12mo, pp. [ii], viii, 158, [2], with an engraved title-page and an engraved frontispiece of a lady at prayer; title-verso signed by Wicksteed as usual; woodcut head-pieces and initials; a fine copy in contemporary black morocco, front covers gilt with a triple fillet border, corner-pieces of a spray with a dragon’s head, central lozenge of sprays, dragon’s heads and birds., gilt turn-ins, gilt edges; contemporary ownership signature to title-page ‘Dorothea Wentworth'.
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A New Week’s Preparation for a worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper, as recommended and appointed by the Church of England … The whole being purified from those ecstatic and carnal Expressions, which … have long been complained of, is now render’d a plain, orthodox, and reasonable Service to almight God. To which is added a morning & evening Prayer for the Closet or Family. The second Edition.
‘Second’ (in fact third) edition, rare, of an update to Samuel Keble’s Week’s Preparation, a book ‘so injurious to Christianity’ and the cause of ‘so great and many scandals’ that it must now be thought ‘unfit’.
The New Week’s Preparation was first published in 1737 (5 in ESTC). This 1739 edition is largely a paginary reprint of that of 1738 (BL only in ESTC), which had been revised by interweaving some of the communion service, and the preface partly rewritten, but it differs in one important measure: Wicksteed has signed the title-verso to ensure each copy’s authenticity in the face of ‘spurious editions’ which are ‘very imperfect as well as incorrect’ – possibly the Dublin piracy of 1737. An independent second part was published 1738 and they are sometime found issued together with an engraved collective title-page.
ESTC records three copies only (Bodleian, NY Historical Society, and SMU).
ESTC T175257.