The Book of Common Prayer

Cambridge: J Baskerville, 1762. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. The beautiful Baskerville printing of this mid-eighteenth century 'Book of Common Prayer'. Baskerville was an innovative type designer and printer. His typefaces were greatly admired by Benjamin Franklin. The Baskerville type is regarded as a transitional serif typeface intended as a refinement of the old-style typefaces of the period such as Calson. With 'Price Five Shillings, unbound' to the title page. ESTC citation number T87220. Collated, complete.A mid-eighteenth century edition of the common prayer and psalms, published after a long period of taunt religious turmoil in England.'The Whole Book of Psalms' collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Sternhold was an English courtier, and was the principal author of this first English metrical rendition of the Psalms.With a table of a calendar containing table of lessons throughout the year, guiding the reading on which prayers to read at morning and evening.Bookplate of R. H. S. Truell to the front pastedown.  In a full straight grained morocco binding. Externally, sound. Rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Loss to the head of spine. Former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, Sir Charles E Kent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spot. Good