BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. HOLY BIBLE. PSALMS.
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.
Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett..., 1760. 4to, 255 x 205 mms., unpaginated, collation: A-G8. BOUND WITH: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and the New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. London: Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett. 1761. 4to, unpaginated, collating A-Uu4 [End of the Prophets], A-K8 [Apocrypha], A-O4 [New Testament, with separate printed title-page], A-D4 E3 [Index]. BOUND WITH: The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, The whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; Conferred With The Hebrew: Set forth and allowed to be Sung in all Churches, of all the People together, before and after Morning and Evening Prayer; and also before and after Sermons; and moreover in private Houses, for their godly Solace and Comfort: laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of Vice, and corrupting of Youth. London: Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1757. 4to, unpaginated, collating A-H4, I3. BOUND WITH: A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation: Serving for the more easy finding out of the most useful Places therein contained. Carefully Perused and Enlarged by John Downame. London: Printed for C. Ware..., 1757. 4to, unpaginated, collating A-H4, I3, with the verso of the title-page for the New Testament with ms. genealogies for a Taylor family, with 3 further leaves at end of volume with more Taylor genealogy and, finally, in a different hand, a tribute (perhaps copied from a tombstone) "In memory of Thomas Woodcock of Newburgh House for 58 Years a Banker in Wigan." Bound in full 19th century blind panelled morocco, spines panelled in blind and "Holy Bible" in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled end-papers, with binder's gilt notation on lower gilt margin of verso of front cover in very tiny letters, "Bound by [?Ramage] London"; some nicks and scratches to covers, top and base of spine chipped, corners a little worn, upper rear joint slightly cracked. The binding is almost certainly by John Ramage; the gilt lettering is miniscule and slightly blurred, but it looks like one of his more journeyman bindings. The BCP is T166782 : NLS, Essex only. The Bible appears to be Darrow and Moule 1135 and ESTC T90402: BL; American Bible Society (2), Essex Institute, NYPL; State Library of South Australia. Psalms is ESTC T82279: BL, NLS, Bodleian; Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, St. Mark's College Library. The Concordance is ESTC T184193: Bodleian; Yale.
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