A Select Office for the Holy Communion
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Consisting of occasional Prayers and Meditations, collect out of such Authors only, as are thought to have excelled in this kind of Writing; to which are prefixed some Propositions, and two Discourses.
Published: Printed for S Leake at Bath and C. Henderson under the Royal-Exchange, 1758
Stock code: 9503
Price: £424.00
12mo., on laid paper; neat contemporary inscription on (blank) leaf following front free endpaper; handsomely bound in contemporary full calf, sides blocked with an elaborate frame panel in gilt including eagles, thistles and flowers, the whole stopped at corners by enhanced crowns, back gilt with five raised bands tooled in gilt, all compartments tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt doublures and dentelles, marbled endpapers, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, one corner lightly bruised else a most attractive copy in period binding.
With the half-title; leaves C9-11 clipped at upper outer corner with minimal loss of text. The work comprises 'Two Discourses' [with] (separately paginated) 'Prayers and Meditations relating to the Holy Communion' [with] (unpaginated) 'The Church Service'. Extremely scarce, especially in period binding in this condition. A most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.