Author: BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. HOLY BIBLE. PSALMS.
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: 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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