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(BASKERVILLE PRESS.) 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 red morocco gilt with floral border and later arms of Lord Cowley, neatly rebacked; scattered foxing, early 20th-century newspaper cuttings mounted on front flyleaf. Early signature of M. Kilkenny on title; 19th-century armorial bookplate of Edward Breese; armorial bookplate and ownership inscription dated 1888 of Robert Day, Jr., President of the Cork Literary & Scientific Society. Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod in London, 1761
First Baskerville edition, Gaskell's group 3, impression without type-ornament borders, with title priced "Eight Shillings and Six Pence" and dated 1761. In this copy B8, C6, C7, and D2 are cancels. Gaskell 12; Griffiths 1761/1.
