[Rarebooks] FS: Extra-illustrated 1724 Book of Common Prayer

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Church of England. Liturgies. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER... Together with the 
Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: John Baskett. 1724. 12mo. 2 parts in 1. 
Unpaginated double column text. Title and prefatory matter printed in red and 
black. BOUND WITH: THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre by 
Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and Others... London: Tho. Wood. 1725. Unpaginated 
double column text. BOUND WITH: A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID. By 
Brady & Tate. Cambridge: Stereotyped by J. Smith. N.d. (circa 1800). 72pp. Double 
column text. The 3 books bound together in polished brown morocco, gilt, circa 
1800. A.e.g. Spine lightly rubbed.     $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This edition of the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER was published without plates. Our 
copy has been extra-illustrated with a fine series of 58 copper engravings, 
each with descriptive engraved text, the plates taken from another work.

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