96pp stapled booklet, with black and white illustrations, in laminated, illustrated light card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight.
John Peake (b. 1823) was son of a Leicester vicar. He was educated at Rugby School, where he came under the influence of its headmaster and eminent poet, Matthew Arnold; and at Hertford College, Oxford, where he came under the influence of John Henry Newman (Cardinal Newman) and the other founding members of the Oxford Movement. He was a curate in Ellesmere from 1848 to 1863 and then, after a brief period in Bedfordshire, became Ellesmere's vicar in 1864.
