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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
The Book of Common Prayer. [346] (of [347]) leaves; lacks the initial blank. 8vo, 243x150 mm, contemporary black morocco gilt attractively gilt, varnished, spine dulled, chipped at bottom, front joint cracked and discreetly reinforced; light stain in lower margin of E4v, contents otherwise clean. Pencil signature of John Peacock; armorial bookplate of John Cornell Schenck. Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod in London, 1760
first baskerville edition; impression with type ornament border throughout, priced "Seven Shillings and Six Pence" on title. With the occasional prayers, not found in all copies, and all the cancels noted by Gaskell. Gaskell 12; Griffiths 1760/4.
