Painted Vellum Binding (3 results)

Scarce miniature book with hand-painted decoration. 2.75" x 2.25" x 0.5" (7.2cm x 5.8cm x 1.4cm). pp.256. Soiled vellum binding in very good condition. Both boards and spine with hand-painted decoration. Original leather tie still attached. Patterned endpapers. Gift inscription in red to front free-endpapers: "Of great value. Hand painted cover. From Father, brought from Venice July 1909. A.D. To Ailen Mary Danby." Portrait frontis. Clean English text throughout, plus a further 3 full-page illustrations. VG .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. 24mo., [iv], 405 pages, title-page and text printed in red and black, also specially bound in are 6 unique finely hand-painted pictorial illuminations on vellum paper (see illustations), marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, specially bound in full contemporary red morocco with both covers and spine covered in repeating gilt fleur-de-lys des patterns, all within gilt-ruled double borders and a further outer gilt decorated border together with decorative inner gilt dentelles. A near fine copy in a most handsome binding with only light occasional minimal wear to some extremities which contains 6 unique finely hand-painted illuminated drawings on vellum paper which have been professionally bound into this fine work. With a neat Presentation inscription to blank front endpaper, 'Florence V. Higginson from Edgar Selright, June 27. 1882' "In Memoriam". The Book of Common Prayer is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The first prayer book, published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome. The work of 1549 was the first prayer book to include the complete forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English. In 1604, James I ordered some further changes, the most significant being the addition to the Catechism of a section on the Sacraments; this resulted in the 1604 Book of Common Prayer. Following the tumultuous events surrounding the English Civil War, when the Prayer Book was again abolished, another revision was published as the 1662 prayer book. That edition remains the official prayer book of the Church of England, although throughout the later twentieth century, alternative forms which were technically supplements have largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer for the main Sunday worship of most English parish churches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Published circa 1900 (gift inscription dated 1908). 22 pp. Little book, measuring apx. 5.5" x 3". Presumably very scarce. The binding is lovely: full vellum with both front and rear panels painted in colors and heightened with gold. Light wear.