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BASKERVILLE PRESS -- The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1762. Large 8° (240 x 151mm). (A few minor stains.) Contemporary red gold-tooled morocco, wide gilt filigree border enclosing the IHS symbol surrounded by an oval-shaped green morocco onlay and sunburst, spine in six compatments each filled with central rosette and smaller flower tools, gilt board and paper edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (light scuff marks to covers, rubbed at extremities). Provenance: Edward Synge (bookplate) -- Ivor A.B. Ferguson (bookplate) -- [Maggs cat. 154, no. 966 (purchase note in pencil]. Third edition. Gaskell Baskerville 19.