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The Book of Common Prayer. [284] (of [347]) pages; lacks the initial blank, and the occasional prayers not found in all copies. Large 8vo, contemporary gilt-tooled navy morocco by Ed. Moor of Cambridge with intricate ornamental border surrounding concave center lozenge of massed small circle, wheel, star, and floral tools, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in one with floral tooling in the rest, spine faded to green; some foxing, mainly at beginning and end. Early 19th-century gift inscription on front blank. Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod in London, 1761
first baskerville edition, Gaskell's group 3, impression with type-ornament borders, with title priced "Eight Shillings and Six Pence" and dated 1761. Second state of B8, C6, C7, and D2. Gaskell 12; Griffiths 1761/1. For a Moor binding with identical lozenge and different border see Maggs Bros. catalogue 893, item 106.
