The Royal Family Prayer-Book
COOKSON, James
Illustrated with explanatory Notes and Observations on a new and edifying Plan. The Third Edition.
THE THIRD COOKSON IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
Published: Printed for J. Wilkes Ave-Maria Lane [and another], [1787]
Stock code: 28401
Price: £440.00
8vo., Third Edition, with engraved frontispiece (mounted on new leaf) and 10 fine engraved plates, frontispiece, title and 3 following leaves lightly wormed in blank margin, Psalms in double column, some light and generally inoffensive marginal age-staining; contemporary full calf, sides with decorative frame border in gilt, back with flat gilt bads, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, remarkably crisp, clean copy.
Large-type edition, with plates engraved by Dodd after Goldar. The Companion and Psalms have separate titles dated 1884. A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY OF AN ELEGANT EDITION IN LARGE, READILY LEGIBLE TYPE. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.