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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, London: John Baskett, 1715. 2°, engraved architectural frontispiece, title printed in red and black, rubricated throughout, printed in double column, initials, contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed), bookplate of Aldenham House, signature of Henry H. Gibbs, St. Dunstan's 1881, some early marginalia.
A lengthy bibliographic inscription in a fine early 19th-century hand on the verso of the front free endpaper begins, "This fine folio Prayer Book is of extreme rarity..."
A lengthy bibliographic inscription in a fine early 19th-century hand on the verso of the front free endpaper begins, "This fine folio Prayer Book is of extreme rarity..."
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