(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.] [338] (of 364) pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; lacks title page and final 12 leaves, lacks music plates, leaf A3 defective, closed tears to 6 other leaves, lacks free endpapers. [Philadelphia, 1786]

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first 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"--Evans 19940. ESTC W29995 (best collation).