This edition of Jeremy Taylor's famous work is the first edition critically edited and fully annotated since the beginning of the Oxford Movement over 150 years ago. The text is based on the first editions of 1650 and 1651, and includes textual variants, a full commentary, and a textual introduction.
We have reason ... to be grateful for the appearance, in this form, of these classic works. Furthermore, Professor Stanwood was eminently qualified to be their editor. ... The result is much more satisfying historically and from the literary point of view than Heber's nineteenth-century edition in Taylor's
Works.