[Rarebooks] fa: BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, &c. Dublin: 1773 in STRIKING PERIOD MOROCCO BINDING

[ArCh]

Auction ending Sunday, October 2. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. Dublin: Printed by the executors of David Hay, assignee of the late Boulter Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, MDCCLXXIII [1773]. [BOUND WITH:] [William Vickers:] A companion to the Altar: shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation, in Order to our Worthy receiving the Holy Commnnion[sic]. Wherein those Fears and Scruples about Eating and Drinking Unworthily, and of incurring our own Damnation thereby, are proved Groundless and Unwarrantable... 1774. [BOUND WITH:] Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate: A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes in Churches. 1773.

Three works in one, 8vo (22 cm), in a striking period binding of full red morocco with the spine elaborately ornamented in gilt and with gilt-tooled sunbursts on the front and rear covers; marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt. Binding with some rubbing and light staining, bumping to the corners; contents with intermittent light browning, a few leaves (ca. 6) protruding slightly from the text block with some wear to the fore-edges, else quite clean and sound.

Also in this lot: A miniature (9.5 cm) Book of Common Prayer, printed in Edinburgh by James Blair in 1737, bound in red polished calf ornamented in gilt.