Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) The Book of Common Prayer. [196] leaves. Ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 206x125 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt with English royal arms on covers and royal monogram in spine compartments; scattered light foxing, upper inner corner of T3-6 torn away with slight text loss; gilt edges. Early 19th-century manuscript register of the Scafe family on verso of front free endpaper. Althorp booklabel; 2 armorial bookplates of Charles Robert Spencer, sixth Earl Spencer (1857-1922), his initialled inscription on title ("C.R.S. given me by Margaret"). Griffiths 773/4. Oxford: T. Wright & W. Gill, 1773