BINDING -- [EVANGELISCHE-REFORMIERTE LANDESKIRCHE DES KANTON ZÜRICH]. Liturgia Tigurina: or the Book of Common Prayers, and administration of the sacraments. And other ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies, usually practised ... in ... the city and canton of Zurick in Switzerland.... London: for D. Newman, R. Baldwin, J. Dunton, 1693. 12° (152 x 94mm). Imprimatur on leaf A1v, with prayer and final 7 content leaves. (Some mainly marginal spotting, light marginal soiling). Contemporary red morocco, the sides elaborately tooled in gilt with a centre-piece of 4 acorns within a square, surrounded by volutes, with a border of vases, tulips, and leafy sprays, spine divided into 6 compartments, one with black morocco lettering-piece, the others decorated with floral designs, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed, with 2 unobtrusive scuff marks on rear cover). Provenance: Robert Crowford, Captian, Royal Irish Artillery (signature on blank) -- "A present from Captain Robt. Crowford ... to Mrs Armstrong" (inscription on front blank, dated 20 May 1795).
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BINDING -- [EVANGELISCHE-REFORMIERTE LANDESKIRCHE DES KANTON ZÜRICH]. Liturgia Tigurina: or the Book of Common Prayers, and administration of the sacraments. And other ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies, usually practised ... in ... the city and canton of Zurick in Switzerland.... London: for D. Newman, R. Baldwin, J. Dunton, 1693. 12° (152 x 94mm). Imprimatur on leaf A1v, with prayer and final 7 content leaves. (Some mainly marginal spotting, light marginal soiling). Contemporary red morocco, the sides elaborately tooled in gilt with a centre-piece of 4 acorns within a square, surrounded by volutes, with a border of vases, tulips, and leafy sprays, spine divided into 6 compartments, one with black morocco lettering-piece, the others decorated with floral designs, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed, with 2 unobtrusive scuff marks on rear cover). Provenance: Robert Crowford, Captian, Royal Irish Artillery (signature on blank) -- "A present from Captain Robt. Crowford ... to Mrs Armstrong" (inscription on front blank, dated 20 May 1795).

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BINDING -- [EVANGELISCHE-REFORMIERTE LANDESKIRCHE DES KANTON ZÜRICH]. Liturgia Tigurina: or the Book of Common Prayers, and administration of the sacraments. And other ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies, usually practised ... in ... the city and canton of Zurick in Switzerland.... London: for D. Newman, R. Baldwin, J. Dunton, 1693. 12° (152 x 94mm). Imprimatur on leaf A1v, with prayer and final 7 content leaves. (Some mainly marginal spotting, light marginal soiling). Contemporary red morocco, the sides elaborately tooled in gilt with a centre-piece of 4 acorns within a square, surrounded by volutes, with a border of vases, tulips, and leafy sprays, spine divided into 6 compartments, one with black morocco lettering-piece, the others decorated with floral designs, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed, with 2 unobtrusive scuff marks on rear cover). Provenance: Robert Crowford, Captian, Royal Irish Artillery (signature on blank) -- "A present from Captain Robt. Crowford ... to Mrs Armstrong" (inscription on front blank, dated 20 May 1795).

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