The Book of Common Prayer. by BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER - 1999

NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1938. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. The volume measures 3 x 4 1/2 inches. The cover is Full Leather. The text is clean with no markings (there is a former owner's name written on the back of the title page). The binding is sound. The cover shows light wear with a couple of small rubbed spots to the leather. Still in original box.

Oxford: University Press,, [c.1890]. An attractively bound miniature prayer book. Miniature, trigesimo-secundo (32mo) (95 x 63 mm). Contemporary brown morocco, smooth spine lettered in gilt, floral device in compartments divided by gilt rules, covers with gilt and blind panels enclosing gilt centrepiece Christogram, gilt brass edges and clasp, yellow endpapers, edges red. Text printed in red and black, within red ruled borders. Head of front joint just starting, p. 27 with offsetting from formerly inlaid flower, else clean. A very good copy indeed.

Oxford: Oxford University Press,, [c.1950]. A handsomely bound copy. Octavo (164 x 108 mm). Contemporary red morocco by Bumpus of Oxford, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges. Early bookmark loosely inserted. Slight discolouration to morocco, contents lightly dampstained; a good copy.

Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University,, 1732. A very attractive copy of this early Georgian prayer book in a contemporary binding, and with evidence of the handing down of such books within families over many decades. The free endpapers have various signatures from the Richards family of Dorchester, who held Warmwell House from 1687 to 1806, and of the reverend William Floyer, the Vicar of Stinsford, and his daughter Elizabeth. Octavo (202 x 125 mm). Contemporary English black morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt border to covers enclosing gilt centrepiece, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Ownership signature to title page "Mrs Richards 1736", repeated on terminal page with "Mrs Richards of Dorchester 1736", with a further note "she died at Dorchester Novbr 1746", and another: "Mrs Mary Richards Daughter of the above Mrs Richards died at Dorchester unmarried 1804 Aged 96", and finally with an early 19th-century note to the front free endpaper verso "Given to Elizabeth Floyer… Read More

Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the University; Printed for John Beecroft, Successor to Mr. Edmund Parker; Printed by Charles Ackers,, 1748; 1747; 1746. A handsome volume, containing the Prayer Book, Psalms, and the popular devotional guide Companion to the Altar. The edition of the Psalms is not recorded by ESTC, though it notes editions printed by Ackers in 1744 and 1745. 3 works in 1 volume, octavo (196 x 118 mm). Contemporary English black morocco, spine and covers tooled and panelled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved frontispiece in Companion to the Altar. Second work bound in between L5 and L6 of first work. A little shaken, else a very attractive copy. ESTC T81423; T82301; third work not in ESTC.

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, [and London: printed by Charles Rivington],, 1781 [& 1772]. A very attractive Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, in a personalized Georgian binding, the spine lettered for one "Thomas Hales Deptford", the covers resplendent with the Christogram "JHS" within richly gilt red and green onlays; a pleasing example of the expense and care dedicated to the binding of Books of Common Prayer in the period. 2 works in 1 one volume, octavo (210 x 126 mm). Contemporary green sheep, spine lettered in gilt, gilt to compartments, gilt foliate and beaded panels to covers enclosing elaborate gilt centrepieces incorporating red and green sheep onlays, serrated gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Joints and spine ends expertly and discreetly repaired, contents foxed and occasionally a little closely cropped, small chip not affecting text to first book leaf Ll4; an excellent copy. ESTC T166750 & T91923.

London: John Reeves, 1807. and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, 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. [bound with] A COMPANION TO THE ALTAR: Shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation, in order to our worthy receiving the Holy Communion: wherein those fears and scruples about eating and drinking unworthily, and incurring our own damnation thereby, are proved groundless and unwarrantable. Unto which are added prayers and meditations, suitable to a sacramental preparation, according to what the Church of England requires from her communicants. [and] A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, fitted to the tunes used in churches, by N. Brady, and N. Tate. Pp. [492]+72+[492], 11 engraved plates; f'cap. 12mo; nineteenth century black straight-grain morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards decorated in… Read More

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. New York: New York Common Prayer and Book Society, 1853. First edition thus. Original full sheep, gilt, morocco label, gilt. Worn, but a solid copy in the original publisher's binding. Twain arrived in New York City after leaving St. Louis and went to work as a type-setter at John Gray's firm on Monday, August 29, 1853 and stayed there until mid-October, when he left for Philadelphia. He wrote home to his mother on August 31, saying that he and forty other type-setters set type for an "immense" number of books and several magazines like The Knickerbocker, New York Recorder, Choral… Read More

London: N, 1738. 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. Pp. [414]+58(A companion to the Altar: shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation, in order to our worthy receiving the Holy Communion)+[128](The whole Book of Psalms), all double column, engraved frontispiece to the Companion to the Altar; contemporary full black morocco, the spine decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, the boards with decorative gilt border incorporating fleurons, flames and stars, gilt edges, the boards slightly scuffed, edges lightly worn, small scar to upper board near bottom edge, tiny snag at head of spine; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; bookplate on upper pastedown, earlier provenance inscriptions (ownership passing to three members of the George family, dated variously between 1745 to 1789) on verso of… Read More

1723. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments. London: John Baskett… and the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1723. Tall folio (10-1/2 by 16 inches), contemporary full mottled calf expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down, corners and spine panels with gilt device of the crown of King George I, raised bands, renewed endpapers, all edges gilt. $8250.Beautiful early 18th-century tall folio edition of the venerable Book of Common Prayer— the treasury of ritual, prayer and Scripture that has indelibly shaped the piety and literature of the English-speaking world—with fine engraved frontispiece, handsome in nicely restored contemporary calf featuring the gilt device of King George I in the corners and spine panels.Born of Thomas Cranmer's desire for liturgical texts upon which all of Europe's Protestant, English-speaking churches could agree, the beautiful and dignified language of the Book of Common Prayer, first… Read More