The Book of Common Prayer: and Administration of the Sacraments: and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, With the Psalter or Psalmes of David.
(Book of Common Prayer).
London: Printed by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie: And by the Assignes of John Bill, 1636.
Price:
$3,250.00
About the item
Title within ornamental border. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in contemporary gold-tooled leather, rubbed, missing ties. Later marbled endpapers with Myers & Co. sticker, rubbed at margins; interior front spine cracked. Ownership signature ("John Walker") in pencil on title page, with several additional holograph ink notations. Paper flaw on D6 with loss to a few words. Griffiths, 1636, 5; Pollard, (2nd ed.), 16404.4; ESTC, S2781.
Item #371746
Printed in Roman type, double columns. Includes the Whole Book of Psalms, printed at the "Universitie of Cambridge," 1634, with a 1635 Apocrypha extracted from a Bible printed by Tho: Buck & Roger Daniel, printers to the University of Cambridge. Additionally, the fifth line of the heading on B1r has: "reade," while another edition (STC, 2nd), 16404.3) has "read."
Provenance: Gift of the Rev. Christina K. Wible.
