The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church.

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

Published by Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, and sold by R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder, in London; and by W. Jackson, in Oxford, 1769

About this Item

A handsome binding made for the Bible trade in contemporary red morocco. This style is sometimes called "Chippendale", acknowledging the contemporary trend towards the use of decorations on bookbindings resembling those popular in other forms of decorative art. This copy has been extra-illustrated with a complete suite of 59 engraved plates, The Liturgy of the Church of England, London, printed by Edward Ryland, 1755. The designs are by Samuel Wale (1721?-1786), one of the most prolific book illustrators of the 18th century, this suite being mentioned in Wale's biography in ODNB, though not listed in ESTC. Among the engravers was the eldest of the copperplate printer Edward Ryland's seven sons, William Wynne Ryland (1733-1783), a highly skilled engraver who was hanged for issuing two forged bills drawn on the East India Company. Provenance: John William Beaumont Pease, Lord Wardington (1936-2019), bookplate; Sotheby's, Wardington Library of English Bibles, 12 July 2006, lot 126. ESTC T81296. Large quarto (275 x 210 mm). Extra-illustrated with a suite of 59 plates, including title, engraved by François Ravenet, Charles Grignion, Louis Gérard Scotin, Walker, and William Wynne Ryland, after Samuel Wale. Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt all over within six compartments between raised bands, sides richly decorated in gilt with wide border of rococo scrollwork, flowers, and insects, enclosing a central green morocco onlay enclosing the Sacred Monogram ("J.H.S."), surrounded by an oval red morocco onlay tooled with stars and dots, within an oval onlay of blue morocco tooled with cherubs' heads, stars, dots, and swags, the whole surrounded by a gilt gloriole, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Bookplate of Jeremy & Penny Martin. Small areas of rubbing to joints, sig. A4 with marginal tears at upper inner corner and outer edge neatly closed, I4 with closed tear at foot entering 10 lines of text but without loss, a few minor blemishes, still very good overall.

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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.
• Publisher: Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, and sold by R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder, in London; and by W. Jackson, in Oxford, 1769