The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments,
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church [with] A Companion to the Altar [with] A New Version of The Psalms of David (1819).
ELEGANT LARGE-FOUNT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY ROAN
Published: Clarendon Press [Cooke & Collingwood] Oxford, 1820
Stock code: 31678
Price: £324.00
8vo., text unpaginated, text partly in double-column, terracotta endpapers; handsomely bound in contemporary full roan, sides most elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, back with flat bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, terracotta endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably elegant, clean, crisp copy.
With the engraved nineteenth century bookplate of Edmund Williams Gilbert mounted on front paste-down. The primary text is presented in a bold, large-fount type ideal for audience address. The 'Companion' is printed by Kaygill for Scatcherd & Letterman to match the edition of Prayer. The Psalter, by Brady and Tate, is also printed by Cooke & Collingwood and dated separately 1819. THIS EDITION IS NOT COMMONLY FOUND IN THIS BINDING AND CONDITION.