Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) The Book of Common Prayer . . . Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. [274] leaves, including engraved general title. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 315x185 mm, early 19th-century navy straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt; occasional light dampstaining and toning. Inscription on front endleaf recto of Robert Brabant, Chaplain to Queen Anne, with 19th-century note below on the subsequent ownership history of the book, and related items tipped to verso; 19th-century family register on rear endleaf. Griffiths 1669/2; Wing B3635. London: His Ma[jes]ties Printers, 1669 [Psalter imprint dated 1676]