Book Common Prayer Revised Settled (2 results)

hardcover. Title in red & black. Thick folio, full brown morocco with raised bands, gilt medallion, decorations & dentelles, top edge gilt, by Riviere. London: Pickering, 1844. Fine. Typographic facsimile of the original black letter edition, with ornamental title page & initial letters. A church ex-libris on the end-paper indicates that the book was a gift from J.P. Morgan in 1905. On the fly-leaf opposite is the "ghost" of J.P. Morgan's own bookplate. A magnificently printed, handsome book.…

Large vellum leather bound folio, 13½"x9"; it collates 1 (engraved half title) - 4, b1-3L2, A1-I2 and is complete, it is printed in red and black black-letter throughout. It is soundly bound in full gilt vellum with Yapp edges, part of the rear boa rd edge is missing. The engraved title has some light foxing and the title page is yellowing a little. There is some browning in the text block throughout and some foxing in a few places, there are some marginal notes in the Morning and Evening praye rs. The text is crisp throughout.…