Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
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 brown morocco with ornamental border stamped in black on covers, title gilt-stamped on front; gilt edges, gauffered to diaper of intersecting diagonal fillets filled in with small roundels. 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 "Queen Elizabeth's prayer book" (see lot 36). Griffiths 853/22.