BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER | John Reeves, 1812, binding with Arms of George III

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of The Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with The Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. John Reeves, 1812

8vo, black straight grain morocco with elaborate gilt rule and Arms of George III in centre of upper board, spine gilt in compartments, anchor in oval design gilt on lower board, powder green endpapers, all edges gilt, some light browning

WITH A DISTINGUISHED LINE OF ROYAL PROVENANCE.

PROVENANCE:

George III (d.1820), with his initials tooled above gilt arms; his third son, William Henry, Duke of Clarence (1765-1837), later King William IV, his bookplate; his eldest illegitimate son (by the actress Dora Bland) George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence (1794-1842), with his bookplates as Col. FitzClarence and the Earl of Munster; J.M. Macfarland, presentation inscription dated 1855

George Augustus FitzClarence served in the Peninsular War, was twice wounded, and eventually escaped after capture by the French. He became brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1819 and served as A.D.C. to his father, King William IV, from 1830 to 1837, becoming Earl of Munster in June 1831. He married Mary Wyndham, daughter of 3rd Earl Egremont, on 18 October 1891, and they had seven children. He committed suicide in 1842 by shooting himself with a pistol presented to him by George IV when Prince of Wales.

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