Name: Auction: Baskerville, John (printer) Book of Common Prayer
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 352 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1761. 8vo (23.5 x 15cm), contemporary red morocco, spine compartments tooled in gilt to saltire pattern, covers panelled in gilt with various concentric decorative rolls and coronet cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, signatures a-c4 B-2L8 2M4 (lacking a1 or a2, possibly a half-title or blank; quire U with 7 leaves only but catchwords all aligning), spine slightly faded, old ink-staining to front board, 19th-century chromolithographic prayer slips tipped to verso of title-page, bookplate of William Ramsay of the University of Glasgow; Bodoni, Giambattista (printer). Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato. Parma: nel regal palazzo co' tipi Bodoniani, 4to (29 x 20.6cm), [24] iv [2] 76 [2] iv [2] 100 [4], contemporary straight-grain blue morocco ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bookplate (T. D. C. Graham); Burnet, Gilbert. The Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given on the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. London: by J. Grover, for R. Royston, 1677. First edition, folio (31 x 18.6cm), near-contemporary red morocco gilt, half-title with engraved portrait verso, 3 other engraved portraits (one a plate, the rest in the text), addenda and errata leaves, bookplate (Edward Cheney) (3)

Book of Common Prayer

Baskerville, John (printer)

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Baskerville, John (printer)

Book of Common Prayer

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