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[DAY, Richard (1552-1607)]. A Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the auncient writers, and best learned in our tyme. London: John Day, 1578.
Small 4° (185 x 125mm). Collation: s4 A2 B-Y4 Aa-Oo4. Title within wide woodcut border of the Tree of Jesse [McKerrow & Ferguson 128], full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso, each page within mostly fine historiated woodcut border, large woodcut printer's device at end. (Minor dustsoiling in quire D; quires T and V perhaps from another copy?) 19th-century blue morocco, finely tooled in gilt in renaissance style by Lortic, edges gilt.
FIRST EDITION OF 'QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PRAYERBOOK'. The otherwise unidentified engraver of the woodcut borders signs many 'C.I.'. STC 6429, variant with the author signing the preface 'Richard Daye' (most copies are only signed 'R.D.').
Small 4° (185 x 125mm). Collation: s4 A2 B-Y4 Aa-Oo4. Title within wide woodcut border of the Tree of Jesse [McKerrow & Ferguson 128], full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso, each page within mostly fine historiated woodcut border, large woodcut printer's device at end. (Minor dustsoiling in quire D; quires T and V perhaps from another copy?) 19th-century blue morocco, finely tooled in gilt in renaissance style by Lortic, edges gilt.
FIRST EDITION OF 'QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PRAYERBOOK'. The otherwise unidentified engraver of the woodcut borders signs many 'C.I.'. STC 6429, variant with the author signing the preface 'Richard Daye' (most copies are only signed 'R.D.').