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The Booke Of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England.
Publisher: Printed by Robert Barker, London;
Date of Publication: 1631
Stock Code: 11983
Unpaginated, pp. A[1]-12, B1-[8], A-CC7, DD2-[3]. Title page and Calendar printed in black and red; title page of Psalter printed in woodcut compartment; text mainly printed in Black Letter. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initial letters. Later full polished calf with 6 raised bands, gilt titles to label to spine and gilt decoration to compartments; embellished floral border in gilt to boards surrounding stylised central cross motif; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Binding scuffed with loss of gilt to spine; upper joint cracked approx 8 cm at tail and 3 cm at head of spine. Large armorial bookplate of Frank Conquest Clare (the Rector at Whaddon in Cambridgeshire) to front paste-down. Lacking final blank leaf (Dd4). Light foxing & toning and some offsetting, with very minor loss to corners of 3 leaves (affecting margin only) otherwise contents clean. Early seventeenth century Book of Common Prayer published by Robert Barker “Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie” Charles I; he was printer to the first two Stuart monarchs, following in the footsteps of his father Christopher who was printer to Elizabeth I. Barker was the publisher of the King James Bible in 1611, one of the most influential texts ever printed in the English language, and co-publisher of the “Wicked Bible”, so called because “Not” was omitted from the Commandment “Thue Shalt Not Commit Adultery”. £850.00