Author:John Purchas

John Purchas
(1823–1872)

Works

• The Miser's Daughter, or the Lover's Curse (1839)
• Ode upon the Death of the Marquis Camden (1841)
• The Birth of the Prince of Wales (1842)
• Poems and Ballads (1846)
• The Book of Feasts (1853)
• The Book of Common Prayer unabridged: a Letter to the Rev. J. Hildyard on his pamphlet, “The Morning Service of the Church abridged,” (1856)
• The Priest's Dream: an Allegory (1856)
• (ed.) Directorium Anglicanum: being a Manual of Directions for the right Celebration of the Holy Communion, for the saying of Matins and Evensong, and for the performance of the other rites and ceremonies of the Church (1858)
• The Death of Ezekiel's Wife: Three Sermons (1866)

Works about Purchas

• "Purchas, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Purchas, Rev. John," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.