Book Of Common Prayer, The
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This exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorates the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers (Austen, Swift, the Brontës). It features a new introduction by The New Yorker’s book critic, James Wood, discussing how it has influenced the English language and literature. As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth century by Thomas Cranmer, who was burned at the stake upon the accession to the throne of the ardently Catholic Queen Mary, it contains the entire liturgy as first presented in Englishas well as some of the oldest phrases to be used by modern English speakers. Here are the daily prayers, scripture readings, psalm recitals, and the services marking such religious milestones as baptism, confirmation, and marriage (to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, to till death do us part”), all from the 1662 edition, whose words live on to this day sin figures of speech, ceremonial vows and benedictions, and in the work of some of the greatest writers in English literature.
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The Book of Common Prayer
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Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1900. (768)pp. A pristine copy of Bryce's Book of Common Prayer, printed in a variety of type faces and sizes, and ultimately perhaps the best testament to turn-of-the-century miniature printing. Bound in black limp morocco with gilt stamping. Housed, as issued, in box with original label claiming the book as the "Smallest Book of… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
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Oxford: Printed at the University Press; London: Henry Frowde, ca. 1898. 155 x 92 mm. (6 1/8 x 3 3/4"). [284] leaves.
LOVELY LATE 19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SILVER BINDING laid over purple velvet, upper cover with central cartouche engraved "Katherine"; lower cover with repoussé Virgin and Child, each cover with an image of a chalice wrapped in a… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
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Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1851. Near fine.. Beautiful velvet-bound copy of the classic Christian devotional texts, with gauffered edges and brass fittings, in contemporary leather box. Prayer books like this one were ubiquitous in Victorian households of members of the Church of England; the prayer books, like the Church of England itself, rose from King Henry… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. [and] A COMPANION TO THE ALTAR. [with] A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID
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Edinburgh: printed by the assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1788, 1785. 178 x 108 mm. (7 x 4 1/4"). [216] leaves.
VERY PLEASING CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH CRIMSON MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, covers with single fillet outer border and entwined feather and bead gilt roll as inner border, smooth spine panels decorated with gilt curls at corners and one of three large… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [BOUND WITH] THE HOLY BIBLE [BOUND WITH] THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS
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Oxford: John Baskett / T. Wood and S. Palmer, 1719/1723. Hardcover. Thick Small Quarto, unpaginated; VG; bound in contemporary brown leather, paneled spine with no lettering; boards diced; moderate rubbing and wear to binding; some margins cute close but without loss to text; 6 lines of ink writing to verso of ffep; mild age-toning to pages;
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. [bound with] STRENHOLD, THOMAS and JOHN HOPKINS. THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH METRE
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Cambridge: J. Baskerville and B. Dod, 1762; Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1762. 171 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/8"). [198], [61] leaves.
VERY PRETTY CONTEMPORARY CLARET MOROCCO, ELEGANTLY GILT, covers framed with dogtooth roll and fillet border enclosing floral roll, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with repeating rows of a small tool creating a lattice effect,… Read more about this item Item Price
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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
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- 1928 (1930)
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Boston: Printed for The Commission (by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press), 1928 (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. A title notorious for wear and weak hinges, this is a tight, Near Fine copy with light edgewear and minor marks to the spine and front cover. Thick folio (9-3/4" x 13-3/4") in publisher's oxblood pigskin leather stamped in black,… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER,
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- 1850
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New York: Stanford & Sword, 1850. Leather_bound. Good. xxii + 284 pages. 4 x 6 in. high. Full leather binding, flexible brown morocco with gilt lettering on spine & gilt decorations on covers, all edges gilt, with frontis engraving, color half-title page & 2 engraved illustrations. Condition of the book is GOOD; Previous owner's name… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Shorter Prayer Book Being an Abbreviated Form of the The Book of Common Prayer with SOme Additional Matter
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- 1948
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Oxford Eyre and Spottiswoode Cambridge, 1948. 314pp. Dark green cloth covered boards, worn to the corners. Church name written to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A service book for used in the Church of England, being the most frequently used parts of the Book of Common Prayer, together with some extracts from the Deposited Book of 1928. . Hard Cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer.
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London:: John Reeves, no date [circa 1801?]., 1801. TAYLOR AND HESSEY BINDING. BOUND WITH: A New Version of the Psalms of David . . . by N. Brady, and N. Tate. London, John Reeves, [no date]. 2 volumes in 1. Small 12mo. Unpaginated. Bound by Taylor and Hessey in full maroon straight grain morocco decorated in gilt and blind,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer: and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church: Deluxe Personal Edition, White Bonded
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- 2014
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Church Publishing, 2014. Bonded Leather. New. lea edition. 1001 pages. 6.60x5.00x1.00 inches. Item Price
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And administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of The Curch, according to the use of The United Church of England and Ireland: Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER,
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Oxford: Printed by S. Collingwood and Co. at the Clarendon Press., 1828. 32mo (9 x 5.5cm). Contemporary 'cathedral binding' of full red morocco with embossed gothic architectural decoration to the boards and spine. Owner's name "A. Berriman" in gilt to the upper board and the date "Jan. 1. 1834" to the lower board. A very good copy, the binding… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer; The Psalter, or Psalms of David; Hymns Ancient and Modern
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London: Oxford University Press; William Clowes and Sons, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 'and the administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David'. Bound with Hymns Ancient and Modern. Interesting binding with faux-ivory panels to spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer (Prayer Book)
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- 1992-01-01
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Ebury Press, 1992-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good. Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer
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- 1856
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Petworth, West Sussex, GBR
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London: Oxford University Press, 1856. Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Small prayer book bound in dark blue velvet with gilt metal decorative edging and clasp. Velvet is slightly worn on spine edges. Front hinge is just beginning to crack. Pages are age-tanned but clean. Pages are gilt edged. Previous owner's dedication on fep dated… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER [with] A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID
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Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison, 1817. Very good plus.. Lovely Regency-era edition of this book of Psalms along with the classic Christian devotional texts, featuring touches of extra ornamentation to the text's gilt edges. Prayer books like this one were ubiquitous in Victorian households of members of the Church of England; the prayer books, like the Church of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. According to the Use of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David
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- 1936
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Church Pension Fund, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. 24mo. Approximate measurements: 3 3/4" x 5 1/2". 611pp. Blind embossed blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Some page corners creased, light stain on page fine foredges, lacking the front fly, very good. Item Price
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The Book of Common Prayer
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- 1714
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- Engraved title page. Printed in black and red , ruled in red. 1 vols. Folio
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New York, New York, USA
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London: Printed by John Baskett. Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, Deceased, 1714. Engraved title page. Printed in black and red , ruled in red. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in full red morocco, richly gilt spine, six panels, raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Engraved title… Read more about this item Item Price
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