The Book of Common Prayer.

The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, And Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

12mo. [171 x 103 x 29 mm]. [374], [122] pp. Bound in contemporary reverse calf, the covers tooled in blind with a dog-tooth and fillet and three rolls, with a long-stemmed flower in each corner. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands, the edges of the boards tooled with a blind roll, marbled endleaves, red edges. (Slightly rubbed and a few trivial scratches).
Cambridge: printed by J. Baskerville, Printer to the University, by whom they are sold in Cambridge, and by B. Dod, Bookseller, in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1762.

Gaskell. John Baskerville, A Bibliography, 20 and 21. Without the initial blank of the first work. With cancel title-page with "Price Five Shillings, unbound". The Whole Book of Psalms was priced at "One Shilling and Sixpence in Sheets". Both works are printed in Baskerville's smallest type, his Nonpareil. A little light browing or foxing but a fine copy. The reversed calf, or suede, is in unusually good condition. Given the provenance it is likely that the volume was bound in Baskerville's home town of Birmingham. Neat ink ownership inscription of Zaccheus Walker, dated 1769 with price "8/6", on blank facing title.

Zaccheus Walker (1736-1808) was the son of the Rev. Robert Walker (1709-1802), known as the "Wonderful Walker" and mentioned by Wordsworth in The Excursion. Zaccheus moved from the Lake District to Birmingham and by 1760 he was working for Matthew Boulton as his chief clerk, keeping accounts from the Soho Warehouse. He married Boulton's sister Mary and their son Zaccheus was born in 1768. Two further generations of Zaccheus Walkers followed, and the contents of the family estate, Fox Hollies Hall, was auctioned in October 1933.

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