By Anonymous
Cambridge   John Baskerville
9.5" by 6.5" Unpaginated
The mid-eighteenth century third octavo Baskerville printing of this 'Book of Common Prayer'.
By Anonymous

1762 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administrations 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

Cambridge   John Baskerville
9.5" by 6.5" Unpaginated
The mid-eighteenth century third octavo Baskerville printing of this 'Book of Common Prayer'.
£350.00
: 2kgs / : 816F27

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Description

Leather Binding

The large format version. This book of Common Prayer was published the same year as a smaller format, with this larger format a scarcer work.

A good candidate for a repack or rebinding as the contents are bright and clean and retains an original binding. 

Baskerville was an innovative type designer and printer. His typefaces were greatly admired by Benjamin Franklin. The Baskerville type is regarded as a transitional serif typeface intended as a refinement of the old-style typefaces of the period such as Calson. 

ESTC reference no. T87227, with 'Price Eight Shillings, unbound' to the title page, and the final leaf being 2T4, as called for.

Including 'The Whole Book of Psalms' collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Sternhold was an English courtier, and was the principal author of this first English metrical rendition of the Psalms.

With a table of a calendar containing table of lessons throughout the year, guiding the reading on which prayers to read at morning and evening.

With the bookplate of Ann Portman to the verso of the front free endpaper.

Condition

In a full calf binding, with gilt detailing. Boards detached. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

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