The Book of Common Prayer.

£850.00

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. [158 x 90 x 31 mm]. A-R12. Contemporary binding of green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of three fillets and repeated impressions of a flower and thistle tool and at the centre the sacred monogram within a circle of flames. The spine divided into six panels with gilt hatched bands, the panels filled with repeated impressions of a chain and lozenge pallet, the edges of the boards and turn-ins hatched in gilt, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Slightly rubbed).
Cambridge: printed by John Archdeacon, Printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly in London, and T. & J. Merrill in Cambridge, 1769

Griffith, The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1768.3.

Bound with The Whole Book of Psalms. Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others; Conferred with the Hebrew.

12mo. A-D12.
Cambridge: printed by Joseph Bentham, Printer to the University, by whom they are sold, and by Benj. Dod in London, 1765

An attractive binding in very good condition. With the ink signature of Anne Livesey dated September 16th 1811 and her ink stamp dated 1812.

Stock no. ebc5544

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