THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, and Administration of The Holy Communion. Together with THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID. but without the Calendar, Occasional Services, and Articles of Religion. (half-title: THE FINGER PRAYER BOOK).

MINIATURE PRAYER BOOK.

Published by Oxford Henry Frowde printed at the University Press, 1890

About this Item

Inscribed January 1890, called The Finger Prayer Book due to its shape, approximately 90 mm tall x 28 mm (cover size), (3½ x 1 inches), pages: (5 + 1 blank), 77-599, as issued, bound in black leather with rounded corners, single rule blind border to covers, "Common Prayer" and the cross gilt on upper cover, gilt title on spine, all edges red and gilded, gilt inner dentelles (turn ins), brown endpapers. Pencil inscription on blank following front endpaper, head and tail of spine and corners very slightly rubbed, inner dentelles slightly chipped, gilt on lower edges and at lower corner damp damaged so that red showing only (see image), tip of lower page corners also affected by damp and tips creased throughout most of the volume. A good plus clean copy. Bondy, Miniature Books, page 131; Welsh, Bibliography of Miniature Books, page 58, does not list this edition without Calendar etc. but there is a copy at Lambeth Palace listed on Copac; Griffiths, Bibliography of Common Prayer, page 414, No.4 (no mention of Henry Frowde). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, and Administration of The Holy Communion. Together with THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID. but without the Calendar, Occasional Services, and Articles of Religion. (half-title: THE FINGER PRAYER BOOK).
• Publisher: Oxford Henry Frowde printed at the University Press
• Publication Date: 1890
• Binding: Hardcover
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