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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer. 1775 +1770 metrical Psalms. Extra-illustrated, in contemporary morocco gilt extra.

The Book of Common Prayer. [206] leaves. bound with:/span The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. [28] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one. 4to, 265x212 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt extra with floral urn border on covers around centerpiece of 2 nesting oval onlays of black and green morocco decorated with Holy Monogram within concentric borders of winged cherub heads and flame tools, spine in 6 compartments with urn and ornamental tools in each; scattered marginal foxing and soiling. Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill for S. Crowder in London and W. Jackson in Oxford, 1775; 1770

  • Notes: handsomely bound copy. 'This quarto was among the last editions to come to America before sales were stopped by the war. Bishop White used this edition as his model for spelling, punctuation, etc., in the first edition of the American BCP in 1790'--Griffiths 1775/1.
    extra-illustrated with The Liturgy of the Church of England Illustrated with Fifty Nine Historical and Explanatory Sculptures, comprising engraved pictorial title and 57 (of 59) plates by various artists, chiefly after Samuel Wale. London: Edward Ryland, 1755.

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