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The Book Of Common Prayer. [346] (of [347]) leaves; lacks initial blank. Large 8vo, contemporary Cambridge(?) binding of black morocco gilt in the style of Ed. Moor with concave lozenge of massed small tools on covers, top of spine chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; some foxing, most noticeably on opening leaves, 19th-century owner's inscription imperfectly washed on title. Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod in London, 1760
first baskerville edition, Gaskell's group 1, impression with type-ornament borders, priced "Six Shillings and Six Pence" on title. First state of B8, C6, C7, and D2. With the occasional prayers not found in all copies. Gaskell 12; Griffiths 1760/4. With the bookplate of the novelist and Baskerville biographer Ralph Straus.
