BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, According to the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: The Clarendon Press by Dawson, Bensley and Cooke, 1806.
4o (267 x 207 mm). (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt ornamental border, flat spine in 6 compartments, one with black morocco gilt lettering-piece, 5 with ornamental gilt tooling, edges gilt concealing a three-paneled fore-edge painting depicting THE ANNUNCIATION, THE VIRGIN MARY AND CHILD WITH ANGELS, and THE RESURRECTION; modern folding case (some staining, lightly rubbed).
The fore-edge painting is after work by the German Rennaissance painter Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 - August 31, 1528).
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, According to the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: The Clarendon Press by Dawson, Bensley and Cooke, 1806.
4o (267 x 207 mm). (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt ornamental border, flat spine in 6 compartments, one with black morocco gilt lettering-piece, 5 with ornamental gilt tooling, edges gilt concealing a three-paneled fore-edge painting depicting THE ANNUNCIATION, THE VIRGIN MARY AND CHILD WITH ANGELS, and THE RESURRECTION; modern folding case (some staining, lightly rubbed).
The fore-edge painting is after work by the German Rennaissance painter Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 - August 31, 1528).
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