Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
The Book of Common Prayer. text and numerous illustrations entirely engraved throughout by John Sturt, including micrographic portrait of George I, double portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and different historiated or ornamental border on each page; volvelle on page v supplied in facsimile. xxii, 166 pages; lacks the final ad leaf. 8vo, 196x122 mm, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt-tooled to all-over pattern of floral and ornamental tools, rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip, endpapers renewed; contents toned and soiled. 19th-century German owners' inscriptions on front endleaf. London: John Baskett for John Sturt, 1717

Additional Details

first sturt edition, published by subscription. Griffiths 1717/1, variant 1; GTS/But One Use 55.