[Rarebooks] FS: D. B. Updike's Magnum Opus: BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

[Charles Agvent]

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Boston: Printed for The Commission (by D. B. 
Updike at The Merrymount Press), 1928 (1930). First Edition. Thick folio 
(9-3/4" x 13-3/4") in publisher's oxblood pigskin leather stamped in 
black, top edge gilt; xli, 611 pages. Beautifully printed in black and 
red on English hand-made rag paper by D. B. Updike in an edition of 500 
copies of which only 250 were for sale at the cost of one hundred and 
fifty dollars in 1930. Updike's magnum opus and one of the most 
beautifully designed American books of the twentieth century. Printed 
for the Joint Commission on the Revision and Enrichment of THE BOOK OF 
COMMON PRAYER and financed by the banker J.P.Morgan, Updike was 
well-suited to printing the work being a staunch Episcopalian and 
familiar with the text; it took two years to produce. This copy was 
presented to the Archbishop of Nova Scotia with a partly hand-written 
printed sheet laid in. A title notorious for wear and weak hinges, this 
is a tight, Near Fine copy with light edgewear and minor marks to the 
spine and front cover.

"For Updike it was the culmination of everything he believed in and 
understood, and every facet of his personality and sensibility was 
called upon to produce this masterpiece of print and spirit" (A CENTURY 
FOR THE CENTURY 25); PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 173. (#021423)        
$4,000

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/021423/book-of-common-prayer

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