Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
The Book of Common Prayer. General title in red and black within woodcut border incorporating royal arms; Psalter title within different woodcut border. [232] leaves, including final blank. bound with: The Form and Manner of Making and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. [14] leaves. and: The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into Engish Meeter by Thomas, Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Title within woodcut architectural border; letterpress music in text. [19], 153, [16] pages. Together, 3 volumes in one, mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 282x178 mm, early 19th-century diced russia gilt, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; marginal dampstaining through much of volume with traces of mold, wormtrails in upper inner corners in middle of volume generally not impairing legibility, title of first work and last leaf of third work remargined, marginal repairs on a few other leaves not affecting text. Griffiths 1639/2; STC 16416, 16478, 2693. London: Robert Barker and the Assigns of John Bill, 1639; 1639; E. G. for the Company of Stationers, 1640