Prayer Book of Edward Vii (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Very Good oversized book, in purple cloth hardback, painted cloth details on cover, and gilt top page edges, deckled edges, pages in wonderful condition, a little wear and tear to cover corners, and slight soiling on cover, includes neat newspaper article of the time from the New York Herald about the book, also includes a supplement "Showing Variants from the Prayer Book of the Church of England in the Prayer Book of the American Church." Due to large size and weight of the book this will require extra postage. Also, contact us for additional pics. ; 14.5 x 11; 385 pages.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Folio.Original purple cloth with beautiful decorative design to the front board. Scuffing to the upper portion of the rear board. Cloth is slightly faded. Title in gilt to the spine. Head and tail caps expertly repaired. Purple decorative pastedowns and endpapers on thick glossy paper. Decorative paragraph headers.Various calenders bordered in red design.Tables. The binding is tight and square. A beautiful copy. Size: 11.0" x 14.5" Language: eng.

First Edition. Large 4to, pp. [2 (blank)], [14], 386, [2 (colophon, blank)], with loosely inserted Supplement showing Variants in the Prayer Book of the American Church (pp. viii, uncut); printed in red and black throughout with numerous historiated woodcut borders and initials; small stain to lower margin of first leaves, otherwise clean throughout; in the publisher's gilt purple cloth, arms of Canterbury, Westminster and London blocked in gilt and colour to upper board, top-edge gilt, others uncut, glazed blue endpapers embossed with lions rampant; spine very slightly sunned, but an excellent copy.Authorised American edition of the Essex House Press Book of Common Prayer, published in celebration of the accession of Edward VII. The title is framed within scenes of London and Westminster and faced by a woodcut of Edward VII enthroned on the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, surrounded by portraits his six predecessors of the same name (with Edward IV standing in front of Caxton's press, one of the notable developments of his reign). The following pages are littered with woodcuts and initials, including not only Biblical scenes but also portraits of British monarchs, a procession of notable figures in English history (from St Alban to the nineteenth century), and a group of figures consulting books in a chained library. The Prayer Book of Edward VII, designed by C.R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press, was first printed in England and here reprinted despite its at-times heavily Anglocentric illustrations in the United States. A loosely inserted Supplement showing Variants from the Prayer Book of the Church of England in the Prayer Book of the American Church includes a large initial with a portrait of Theodore Roosev elt. Language: English.

Hardcover. Near fine 1/4 leather and beveled, oak wood boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in one compartment. A folio measuring 14 by 10 1/2 inches with hand wrought metal clasps on the front board (the rear clasps are missing from the rear board). The absence of any wear to the leather or any date on the spine strongly suggests a more recent rebind of the pigskin covered spine. The contents are extremely clean and free of soiling. The print is in black and red with the edges untrimmed. A limited edition of only 400 copies of which this copy is identified as number 179. 387 pages of text including the colophon. Illustrated throughout with wood block designs by C. R. Ashbee. This volume comes with "A Key To The Principal Decorations In The Prayer Book of King Edward VII, as Designed and Carried Out by D. R. Ashbee." laid-in, published by The Cambridge Society of New York and Montreal, M. Walter Dunne, President, which is a small quarto in wraps 14 pages with the rear cover loose and shallow chipping around the edges of the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Measures at 14.5" x 11.5" x 2.75". Published in the US and Canada by M. Walter Dunne, under a joint arrangement with the Essex House Press, of Camden, Gloucestershire, England, the Guild of Handicraft, London, England and with Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, printers to His Majesty King Edward VII, New York; London, 1904. The authorized American edition of the Prayer-Book of King Edward VII. The designs and type throughout are those of the English edition published by Royal warrant, and are the work of C.R. Ashbee of the Essex House Press. C.R. Ashbee was unique in his time for his American connections and was an important influence on the American Arts and Crafts Movement. R. Catterson-Smith assisted in the preparation of a few of the blocks which were cut in England by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman. The proofs were corrected by the house of M. Walter Dunne under the direct supervision of Angus Frederick Mackay. Asides of the binding this edition distinguishes itself from the limited edition of 1892, which is bound in decorative gilt-stamped vellum, in that the text is not girded with decorative floral borders. A massive and beautiful undertaking. Original purple cloth with beveled edges and intricate four color design of a Royal crest, drawn and executed at the bindery of M. Walter Dunne with decorative gilt borders, gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Blue silk moire endpapers with lion imprints. For-edge uncut. Frontispiece woodcut with red lettering. Title page with elaborate woodcut border red lettered rubric. Eight pages of table of content, each with pictorial woodcut, decorative border and red lettered rubric and page indicators for respective contents. Beautifully illustrated with historiated headpieces and initials. Illustrated tables from proper lessons, psalms on certain days and calendar in red and black. Two full page woodcuts on page 350 and 351. Printed in red and black throughout. Light wear to spine edges and corners, some fading to the spine, else fine inside and out. Lightly toned. Shelf.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback, oak boards with recent leather spine and hammered metal clasps by Anastasia Power at The Guild of Handicraft and Eyre and Spottiswoode. Leather straps now missing. New end-papers. Folio, 38 x 28cm. [12], 387pp. Printed in red and black, woodcut frontispiece, illustrations, decorations, borders, and initials, by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman after C.R. Ashbee. Number 96 of a limited edition of 400 copies. Some wear to boards, mainly to corners. Internally minor foxing to first page, otherwise a wonderfully clean copy. The largest book printed by the Essex House Press, printed with a new type for the work, designed by Ashbee. A heavy book, additional postage will be required for orders outside the UK.