Lot 398

Fine Binding
The Book of Common Prayer

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 9 October 2019 at 12:00 BST
£625
Description
London: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, [n.d., 19th century]. 12mo, additional chromolithographed title-page and 8 chromolithographed plates, bound with an 1845 Book of Psalms, contemporary hand-painted and varnished wooden covers with an elaborate red and gilt central panel surrounded by a green border with green and gilt interwoven foliate motifs, reminiscent of mediaeval manuscript illumination, spine and edges brown morocco gilt
