BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1853 The Book of Common Prayer

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The Book of Common Prayer. 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. 8vo, publisher's blind-ruled plum morocco, raised bands rubbed; scattered minor foxing; gilt edges. London: Charles Whittingham for William Pickering, 1853

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Attractively produced illustrated edition with the portrait of Elizabeth and the historiated borders copied by Mary Byfield from the 1581 and 1590 editions of A Book of Christian Prayers, also known as "Queen Elizabeth's prayer book." Griffiths 853/22.