BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1772.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1772.

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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1772.
8o (201 x 121 mm). Red morocco, covers with gilt dog-tooth roll border, large gilt-dotted central panel with floral cornerpieces, spine in 6 compartments with a repeated floral gilt panel, gilt edges concealing a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF "THE ANNUNCIATION" AFTER FRA ANGELICO and "PIETA" AFTER FRA FRANCIA, bound by H. H. Reffell with binders ticket on upper doublure; modern slipcase (joints and head and foot of spine lightly rubbed). Provenance: M. A. Limerick (early ink signature on title page); Fowler Comings (signature in ink); Lord Masham [?] (bookplate); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's New York, 17 October 1988, lot 1299).

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