The Book of Common Prayer,

by FINE BINDING.

$1,013 · Offered by Biblio

London: Printed and Sold by J. Lewis,, [c.1785]. A wonderful example of a fine 18th-century morocco binding. Duodecimo (165 x 100 mm). Contemporary morocco, compartments elaborately gilt, gilt frames to boards, gilt roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, green bookmarkers. Near-contemporary ownership inscriptions of three women in the same family to first blank and title page. Binding a touch rubbed and inobtrusively marked. A near-fine copy.

• Year: 1785
• Binding: hardcover

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