[Fine Binding] - The Book of Common Prayer
Printed by the Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills
£1,063
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
London, 1681. 8vo, portrait and 48 engraved plates, a little damage to gathering D slightly affecting text and lower margins [ESTC R172840]; [bound with] The Whole Book of Psalms collected into English Metre. London: printed for the Company of Stationers, 1680. 8vo, a little browning, footers slightly shaved; bound in elaborately tooled red morocco gilt with floral motifs, with gilt tooled black morocco onlays to covers and spine, some slight rubbing to covers with a few small patches of leather missing from upper cover, bookplate of Richard Redmond Caton, two neat early ownership inscriptions and the ownership signature of Alice Forster 1731-2 to the title-page; [Book of Common Prayer. N.p., n.d. but c.1770] 8vo, lacking title-page but with a presentation inscription: "Presented to Mrs Burnley by the late Governor Holwell, one of the Survivors of the Black Hole of Calcutta", red morocco gilt (2)