Rebecca Hamilton's copy
The Book of Common Prayer ... According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1851.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
670, 237pp. 12mo. Contemporary brown velvet, brass clasp and edges, patterned endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: inscribed by Philip Hamilton to his wife Rebecca.
Item #323523
Rebecca McLane married Philip Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's youngest child, on December 29, 1842. This Book of Common Prayer is inscribed by Philip to Rebecca on December 25, 1852, evidently a ten-year anniverary present.
