THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID.
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, Clarendon Press., 1815. Covers and spine tooled in gilt. Intricate chain and floral borders with central gilt panels. Spine panelled with lettering and designs in gilt. Minor edge and corner wear. Thick inner dentelles with watered silk endpapers. All edges gilt with gauffered edges carrying out linear and floral designs on the covers. A finely-mellowed binding. Twelve engraved plates by R. ACKERMANN, including the engraved title-page. Each full-page plate introduces the portion of the prayer book which follows, such as the order for morning and evening prayer, burial of the dead, order of confirmation. All plates are bright with some minor toning at edges. Internally crisp and clean throughout. Print size is easily readable. 406pp.. Stereotype Edition. Full Red Morocco. Minor Wear and Soiling./No Jacket.. Royal Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012127
- Title
- THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Wear and Soiling.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket.
- Edition
- Stereotype Edition
- Publisher
- Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, Clarendon Press.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1815
- Size
- Royal Octavo
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Religion
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gauffered Edges
- ...
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