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. Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches

19TH CENTURY PRAYER BOOK - Illustrations after Albert Durer, Hans Holbein, and others : In imitation of Queen Elizabeth's Book of Christian Prayers

Published by William Pickering, London, 1853

About this Item

Octavo, bound in later 20th Century black half-morocco leather over red cloth boards, the spine with raised bands, lettered and ruled in the compartments, front & rear panels with ruled boarders in gilt, black endpapers, all edges gilt. Decorated title in red & black, verso with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth at prayer. Every page with decorated border illustrated with designs by Mary Byfield after Albert Durer, Hans Holbein, and others. Two ink names on a preliminary blank, one dated 1868, the other 1975; a very good clean copy, nice and attractive. A beautiful and sympathetic reprint of the 1569 prayer book Queen Elizabeth I.

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Bibliographic Details

• 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 United Church Of England And Ireland. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches
• Publisher: William Pickering, London
• Publication Date: 1853
• Binding: Hardcover
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