Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 144
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) [The Book of Common Prayer in Taylor shorthand.] manuscript in english, written in black ink on wove paper watermarked AFOWEN 1844. 172 leaves. 182x115 mm, contemporary navy straight-grain calf, somewhat worn, gilt edges gauffered to design of intersecting diagonal fillets filled in with small circles; contents clean. According to note on front flyleaf, "Written for, and presented to, Samuel Dale by his Sister Phebe, as a token of affectionate regard." [England], 1846