The Book of Common Prayer . . . As revised and proposed to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church,At a Convention of the said Church . . . Held in Philadelphia . . . from September 27th to October 7th, 1785. [182] leaves. 12mo, 185x110 mm, later 19th-century gilt-panelled tan calf with earlier gilt-tooled calf backstrip laid down; contents soiled with scattered stains, ink blots, and pencil marginalia; top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Philadelphia, Printed: London, re-printed for J. Debrett, 1789
first london edition, limited to only fifty copies, of the proposed prayer book originally printed in 1785 in Philadelphia. Though not accepted by the 1789 General Convention, "several of its features were incorporated into the first American Prayer Book, published in 1790"--UTS/But One Use 89. Griffiths 1789/8.
