Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 6,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
A Booke of Christian Prayers. Title and each text page within historiated borders with different subjects, including an extended Dance of Death sequence; full-page portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on title verso; printer's device on last page. [148] leaves. Black letter. 4to, late 17th-/early 18th-century gilt-panelled red morocco, joints cracked, cords intact; some light marginal soiling and dampstaining, mainly at beginning, few borders slightly cropped at end; bookplates. London: Richard Yardley and Peter Short for the Assigns of Richard Day, 1590
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Fourth edition of "Queen Elizabeth's prayer book," the only English prayer book patterned after the traditional Parisian Book of Hours, originally published as Christian Prayers and Meditations in 1569. "Of the books of private prayers authorized for use during Elizabeth's reign, this version . . . was particularly popular for its many woodcut illustrations and decorated and historiated borders, as well as for the full-page woodcut of the Queen, whence this version's popular title"--GTS/But One Use 31. Griffiths 844/33.