Author: (Common Prayer).
Title: 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.
Description: Cambridge : printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University; by whom they are sold, and by B. Dod, Bookseller, in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1762. Large 8vo. ([a]-[c4]) + (B-[Tt4]). ([Aa7]-[Pp8]) with neat marginalia, some light browning, marginal dampstaining to margins of prelims., blind ownership stamp of D. Wyndham Smith to front f.e.p., lightly faded marbled e.ps., inner gilt tooled dentelles, contemporary green morocco, intricate gilt tooling to edges of boards with gilt urns and foilage and flowers, some fading to gilt with light loss to centre of boards, intricate gilt tooled spine, some wear to joints, sl. loss to corners, a.e.g. ¶ Tipped in leaf prior to title page with the signatures of a family of Gilliatts dated 1768-1772. ESTC T87227 ‘ Final leaf = Tt4. Gaskell, 19.’ To tail of title page ‘Price Eight Shillings and sixpence unbound’ partially obscured by decorative strip of paper. Apparently one of the rare copies with the prayers for the Royal Family in the original state and including the mention of Queen Charlotte whom George III had married in 1761.

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