BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1638 The Book of Common Prayer Hand

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The Book of Common Prayer. Woodcut ornamental title border, initials, and head- and tailpieces, hand-colored throughout. Folio, contemporary calf with small gilt lozenge in center of covers and ornamental tool in spine compartments, spine ends slightly chipped; lower portion of N7 excised and restored in pen-and-ink facsimile. London: R. Barker and Assigns of J. Bill, 1638

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This edition is known as the "wicked Prayer Book" owing to a printer's error ("the righteous shall be punished") in Psalm 37:29. Griffiths 638/1; STC 164309. Bound with a 1638 London edition of the Sternhold/Hopkins metrical psalms, printed in black letter with letterpress music in text, also hand-colored (STC 2677).