Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Group of 6 type-facsimiles of important early editions. Black letter. Folio, original gilt-paneled imitation vellum with morocco lettering pieces, spines darkened and brittle with some surface defects, small hole in rear cover of 1552 facsimile, The Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion missing portions from top and bottom of spine; bookplates. London: William Pickering, 1844

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Reprints of the 1549, 1552, 1559, 1602, 1637, and 1662 editions, accompanied by Pickering's 1844 folio The Order for the Administration of the Holy Communion and Occasional Offices. The series is completed by the 1844 Pickering edition of The Book of Common Prayer as ordered by Queen Victoria, not present here. Griffiths, page 304; Lowndes, page 1945.