Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
The Book of Common Prayer. [232] (of ?) leaves, including engraved additional title by David Loggan after Jan Baptist Jaspers. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 405x262 mm, contemporary morocco gilt-tooled to panel design with cipher of King James II in corners, crudely rebacked, endpapers conspicuously renewed; occasional toning and marginal fingersoiling, repair in blank lower margin of F1-3, blank upper outer corner off G4, 2S1 bound at end. sold as is. London: Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, 1687

Additional Details

wide-margined copy, but with 8 leaves (G1-2, H1-2, H4, T4, 2P2, and 2S1) supplied from later editions with prayers to his Royal Highness George as either Prince of Wales or King and Governor, and lacking the last 3 leaves (Gunpowder Treason service and final blank). Griffiths 1687/1; Wing B3679.