Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
Church of England, Liturgies. The Liturgy of the Church of England Adorn'd with 52 Cuts. [bound with] The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: by Wright and Gill, sold by Crowder and Jackson, 1777; [and] A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches, London: Printed by Mary Harrison, 1774; with forty-nine of the fifty-two engravings interspersed through the first two titles, viz., engraved frontis portrait of George II, engraved title, plates numbered 2-51 with the omission of plates 10, 26, and 27, all hand-colored (contemporary or near-contemporary); bound in contemporary full red sheep, toled in gilt, spine damaged and repaired, lacking endcaps, a.e.g., 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.

Additional Details

Suite of engravings not in ESTC, they depict the usual religious subjects but end with plates depicting the Gunpowder Plot, martyrdom of Charles I, and restoration of Charles II; Book of Common Prayer ESTC T82211; Psalms ESTC N67336 two U.S. copies only.