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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
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- Condition
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About This Item
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 VIII's break with Catholicism. Intended to be used during Sunday church services and as devotional works, many copies of THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER display varied signs of use. A well-preserved and attractive example. 16mo, 4.75'' x 3''. Original purple velvet binding with brass clasp and brass fittings along all edges, brass title plate "Church Service" to front board. All edges gilt and gauffered. Cream coated endpapers. [488] pages. Housed in contemporary full purple leather box with felt interior. Contemporary ink inscription dated 1852 to second fly leaf. Binding with light rubbing of velvet to edges, brass somewhat tarnished. Vibrant.
Synopsis
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 English—as 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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- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48659
- Title
- THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed at the University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1851
- Keywords
- 19th century,English & British,Fine Binding,Religion,Bible,Gift Beaut Binding
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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