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Mount Tabor. Or Private exercises of a penitent sinner. Serving for a daily practice of the life of faith, reduced to speciall heads comprehending the chiefe comforts and refreshings of true Christians: also certain occasionall observations and meditations profitably applyed. Written in the time of a voluntary retrait from secular affaires. By R.W. Esquire. Published in the yeare of his age 75. Anno Dom. 1639. The contents of the booke are prefixed.

General note: R.W. = R. Willis. Partly in verse. Printer's name from STC. The first leaf is blank. Imprimatur on A6v reads: "Imprimatur. Thomas Wykes. October 31. 1639." Signatures: A6 B-K¹² L6. Formerly also STC 20595. Cutting from Halliwell-Phillipps' "Outlines", 7th ed., Vol.1 pp.41-43, mentioning this work, pasted on end fly leaves, with MS. ink notes on its relevance; catalogue cuttings pasted on final end fly leaf (Sotheby's, London, Lot 603, E.E. Baker sale) and on inside back board UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 25752 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1965. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1052:12). Ownership and custodial history: Bookplate of Ernest E. Baker on inside front board; Richard Savage's note re: purchase at Sotheby's; purchased at Sotheby's, London, Lot 603, E.E. Baker sale, 1938 UK-SuSCL