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The Book of Common Prayer

1853réf. 13061'A TRIUMPH OF PRINTING AS WELL AS OF ILLUSTRATION AND TYPOGRAPHY' IN AN APPROPRIATE SCOTTISH BINDING first edition thus 12mo. in sixes collates a-d6 B-Z6 AA-KK6 a-z6 AA6 that is 720 pages printed in Caslon type title page printed in red and black within a deep and striking woodcut border representing the Tree of Jesse full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title page text inside varied and complex decorative and pictorial woodcut borders throughout by Mary Byfield decorative initial letters contemporary dark purple morocco over bevelled boards signed on verso of front free endpaper "Orrock Binder Edinb." sides blocked with 8 nesting borders of blind fillets and rolls some crossing at the corners to make small corner compartments with a leaf tool in blind in each spine with raised bands and blind tooling direct lettered gilt all edges gilt purple ribbon marker some very minor and scattered light foxing some light rubbing else a nice copy. Handsome copy of a most attractive book. GRIFFITHS Bibliography . Book of Common Prayer 1853 22 "The cuts harmonize perfectly with the type and this small tome is a triumph of printing as well as of illustration and typography" R. McLean Victorian Book Design 1972 p.12.For this book Mary Byfield 1795-1871 who spent most of her life working for the Chiswick Press cut over 100 wood blocks. These blocks many of great beauty were in the main based on early designs by Holbein Dürer Tory &c. copied from Queen Elizabeth's Book of Christian Prayers London 1581 and 1590 but they also included some based on contemporary designs by Charlotte Whittingham although to distinguish the old from the new is virtually impossible. This edition was afterwards reissued by other publishers. William Pickering [printed by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press] hardcover

P & B Rowan · Royaume-Uni500,00 £GB≈ 599,66 €

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