[Rarebooks] FS: Sparrow's "...Exposition of the Book of Common Prayer." London: 1722

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) Sparrow, Anthony and Samuel Downes. A RATIONALE OR PRACTICAL EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, By Anthony Sparrow... The Seventh Edition. To Which Are Prefix'd the Lives of the Compilers of the Liturgy by Samuel Downes. The Second Edition. London: Printed by J. Bettenham, for Charles Rivington. 1722. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 (as published) each part with a title page, the main title printed red & black. Illus. with a copper engraved frontispiece depicting & naming the 13 compilers. Cont. gilt tooled paneled red morocco, a bit rubbed & tips worn. Rebacked some time ago in reddish calf with brown morocco spine label. A.e.g. Ownership signatures on title and front pastedown, and 2 neat gift inscriptions on front free endpaper. Title page lightly soiled.     $300.00  (trade discount allowed)

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