6 7/8 x 4 3/8". Unpaginated. [364pp.] Includes errata and 2pp. ads. Early lightly rubbed tree-calf boards rebacked with original spine reserved. Repairs to corners, newer endpapers and preliminary blank. Evidence of repair to rear hinge. Engraved title has neat ownership signature, "W. Pearce, 1790" in margin of title page. Very nice clean, solid copy with custom folding box, which has some fraying and wear. Long pencil note on fly-leaf relates an abbreviated version of the following information. "�English reprint of the first American Book of Common Prayer as proposed by the newly formed convention of the Protestant Episcopal churches of America. There is a long tradition that only fifty copies of this edition were printed. The source for this statement is found in the Historical Magazine I (1857), p. 221, in a footnote to a list of pre-1800 American editions of the BOCP: " The only copy of this I have ever seen was in the library of the Rev. Wm. B. Steven s, DD of Philadelphia, and contains immediately under the book-plate of one of the English Nobility from whose collection it originally came, the manuscript note that only fifty copies were published- probably for the use of the English bishops who were then considering the request do the American Church for the succession "- Griffiths, 1789/8 states " Only fifty copies printed.".

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Title

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, and ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, and other RITES AND CEREMONIES� As Revised and Proposed to the Use of The Protestant Episcopal Church, At a Convention of the Said Church in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina. Held in Philadelphia From September 27th. To October 7th. 1785.

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Philadelphia, printed: London: Reprinted for J. Debrett

Publication Date

1789

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very good plus

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