Lot 1311 , The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments....together with the Psalter or Psalms of David...title in red and black, portrait frontis. (Geo.I), pictorial engraved plates title and 52 (ex.53) plates,

° The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments....together with the Psalter or Psalms of David...title in red and black, portrait frontis. (Geo.I), pictorial engraved plates title and 52 (ex.53) plates, red headlined and ruled throughout; near contemp. gilt ruled red morocco, (gilt decorated panelling on covers (enhanced with fleurons and demi lunes at edges), gilt extra panelled spine, ge. and marbled e/ps., cr. 8vo. Oxford; printed by John Baskett....1716; bound with - The Whole Book of Psalms: collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins....title in red and black, red ruled throughout. printed by G. Croom, for the Company of Stationers, 1709
£200-300

Condition:
Sl. wear head and tail of spine and along joints; lacks plt.16 (at E5), its removal damaging that leaf at fore-edge, cutting close/shaving final letters and all of the red rule on recto, and cutting close on verso (where some red ruling remains); V8 has some fore-edge margin torn away (affects 11 lines) - losing red rule and cutting close / shaving the last/first letters; Bb8 has a wavy tear (though clean) down the leaf near fore-edge (partly on print and partly on blank or margin). Text rubricated as required, the red ruling (multi in places) extends even to the plt. versos; d-column (both works), clean text and plts. BPC. (432)pp.; Sternhold (2), 85, (86-88)pp. The plates sub title reads 'The Liturgy of the Church of England, adorned with 55 historical cuts' (sold by John Sturt...and John Nutt...) A most unusual Oxford University bkplt (dated 1745) is at front - see illus., and the book was later in the Blackstone and Williams families (Dorset and Wilts connections) with notes on 6 commencing blanks. BPC. is ESTC.T82208

Sold for £100