Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 60

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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) [Collier, Jeremy.] Reasons for Restoring Some Prayers and Directions, as they stand in the Communion Service of the First English Reform'd Liturgy . . . Fourth Edition. [2], 35 pages; title shaved along fore edge * A Defence of the Reasons for Restoring Some Prayers and Directions of King Edward the Sixth's First Liturgy; being, A Reply to a Book, entituled, No Reason for Restoring them . . . Second Edition. [4], 122, [2] pages, including final blank * A Vindication of the Reasons and Defence, &c. Part I[II]. Being a Reply to the First [Second] Part of No Sufficient Reason. [4], 56; [4], 166, [1] pages, including final errata leaf. Together, 4 volumes in one, each with half-title. 8vo, contemporary gilt-panelled calf, portion missing from bottom of spine, rear joint partly cracked; contents dampwrinkled and variously dampstained, top portion of front free endpaper torn out. London: J. Bettenham, 1718; 1718; 1718; 1719

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Series of pamphlets in the controversy over the revised communion office advocated by Collier, which was based on the 1549 prayer book instead of the 1662 version.