The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
Book Description
12mo. Unpaginated (last leaf: O12). [BOUND WITH] Companion to the Altar shewing the nature and necessity of a sacramental preparation. London; Beecroft. Frontis, pp 72. [BOUND WITH] The Whole Book of Psalms collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold. Cambridge: 1771. Contemporary signature Edwrd Thieler [?] to recto of Companion to the Altar, later signature Mary Garbett Augst 1821 to flyleaf, and to head of title page, bound in very attractive straight-grained calf, with gilt spine, bookbinder s label H & J Parker, Hereford to front paste down. Corner of F1 torn with loss of text, otherwise in good condition. An attractive eighteenth century provincial binding, unusually with the binder s label, itself rather rare. Not in British Library s list of binders; not in Society of Bookbinder s list of binders.
Author
N/A
Date
1771
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Cambridge: printed by John Archdeacon Printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, 1771.
Condition
Good
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