(RELIGION) The Book of Common Prayer Proposed to the Use

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(RELIGION.) The Book of Common Prayer . . . Proposed to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church at a Convention . . . Held in Philadelphia. [364] pages. 12mo, contemporary marbled gilt calf, minor wear, tastefully rejointed; minor dampstaining on top edge; later inscription on front free endpaper. London, 1789

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Second edition. In 1785, due to the changed political relationship between England and America, American church officials revised the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and printed it the following year. "The proposed Prayer Book met with much criticism and opposition in the church, owing to its radical changes, and was never adopted. It was reprinted in London, in 1789, in an edition of fifty copies, without the eight engraved pages of music, for the use of the Anglican Bishops in convocation, together with the Application of the American Church, for discussion"--Evans 19940 (the 1786 printing). ESTC T161150.