Lot 45

[Book of Common Prayer, in Latin verse]

Liturgica sacra ... deducta a Rand[olph] Gilpin

£693

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST

Description

[London?: no publisher], 1657. 8vo (14 x 8.5cm), contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, blind panels to sides, title-page and blanks repaired, ownership inscription 'E libris Gulielmi Burlington' to title-page [ESTC R504668];
Lord's Prayer; polyglot. Oratio Dominica. [In Greek:] Polyglottos, polymorphos. Nimirum, plus centum linguis, versionibus, aut characteribus reddite et expressa. Editio novissima, speciminibus variis quam priores, comitatior. London: Dan. Brown, Chr. Bateman, and W. Innys, 1713. 4to, disbound, specimens of the Lord's Prayer in numerous languages throughout the text, engraved and typographic, 5 engraved plates (showing: Lord's Prayer in various Middle Eastern languages; the Phoenician and Siculo-Punic alphabets; the Ottoman Turkish alphabet; a pronunciation guide for various Semitic languages; and 'Analysis Orationis Dominicae', comprising a grammatical analysis of the Lord's Prayer in Middle Eastern languages), plates re-guarded, spotting, half-title discarded, title-page repaired to no loss of text, B4 with marginal excision and tear costing text on verso, similar excision to C3 (no text apparently lacking), final leaf repaired just touching a few letters [ESTC T119927];
[Church of England]. The Church of England-Man's Private Devotions: being a Collection of Prayers out of the Common-Prayer Book ... by the Author of The Week's Preparation to the Sacrament [part 2: The Holy-Days: or, the Feasts and Fasts, as they are observed in the Church of England]. London: for T. Longman, and C. Hitch, 1749. 2 parts in 1 volume, 12mo, contemporary sprinkled sheep, pp. [4] 57 [8] 40, engraved frontispiece, front joint cracked;
and 8 others (these not collated): Thomas Secker, Eight Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Dioceses of Oxford and Canterbury, 1799, fifth edition, Sylloge confessionum sub tempus reformandae ecclesia editarum, 1804, Edward Stillingfleet, Origines sacrae, 1797, new edition, 2 volumes, these 3 works all in fine contemporary tan calf prize-bindings with 'Mr Hulme's exhibition, Mr. Parker, Braz. Coll [i.e. Brasenose College, Oxford], 1805' gilt to front boards; John Gregory, The Works, 1671, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved title vignette, frequent Hebrew types; Joseph White, Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, 1792, fourth edition, contemporary sprinkled calf; Breviarum Suessionense ... pars Hiemalis, 1742, contemporary straight-grain blue morocco, gilt edges; and 2 similar

Footnote

Note:

The first work (Liturgica Sacra) is a rendering of the Book of Common Prayer produced at a time when the BCP had been proscribed by the Commonwealth. There were two issues, both dated 1657; this issue contains an extra final gathering (K) with errata and additional text, and ESTC traces two copies only, at Eton (the author's alma mater, to whom the work is dedicated) and Edinburgh. ESTC does not call for any plates in this edition of the Oratio Dominica and it has not been established how many are required for a complete copy. The third work (The Church of England-Man's Private Devotions) was first published in 1696; this edition is untraced.