The title continuesAn Abridgment of Dr. Prestons VVorksReduced into Order, and contracted thus for the comfort & benefit of meaner Christians, Who cannot buy, or attend to read the great VolumesJohn Preston (1587-1628) was a puritan divine, son of a farmer, and educated at the Northampton grammar school & Kings College Cambridge. More details can be found in the Dictionary of National Biography. Full-leather binding, with gilt decoration & edges of text block. Pencil annotations inside front board, and amusing ink sketch with apparent signature & date1674on verso of title page (which, like other early pages, displays show-through); rear board detached from text block, and sewing loose in places; endpapers missing, also last page of index & p.793 (indicated by pencilMm1 absent&Rr12 absenton front board); section B (pp.1-24) partly detached and with 'worm-hole'; section Q (pp337-60) detached.