31st Jul, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Aviation & Transport
 
Lot 67
 

Bible, English

Bible, English

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments…, 3 parts including the Holy Bible and The Whole Book of Psalms, double column, light browning, & occasional spotting, some leaves just shaved at head with occasional loss of headlines, B10,P1 & Zz1 tears with loss of text in part 2, Dd11-12 trimmed at foot, NT Mm10 & Ss11 torn, Ss2 misprintend, other leaves chipped, last 3 holed, front free endpaper inscribed “Francis Searle this books given by his aunt Collman? in the year of our Lord 1775”, other inscriptions throughout, nearly contemporary paneled morocco, one later working clasp only, upper boards bearing initials M. H., marbled pastedowns, boards detached, extremities rubbed, [ESTC R37445 & Wing (2nd ed.), B3676 part 1; R236234 part 2; R176530 & Wing 1996, B2554A part 3], 8vo?, printed at the Theatre in Oxford and sold by Thomas Guy, 1685.

*** Common Prayer very RARE. ESTC lists ONLY ONE copy at the Bodleian Library.

Sold for £1,000

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