Book of Common Prayer

4to (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.; 194 x 136 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut allegorical border incorporating the royal arms at the top, calendar printed in red and black, additional sectional title for the Psalms within woodcut border; title soiled and torn in lower outer corner affecting woodcut border, light marginal soiling and spotting on a few leaves. Contemporary London calf gilt-tooled with the royal arms in center on a field of small thistles, gilt-stamped corner-pieces at four corners, smooth spine gilt with scrollwork tools; rebacked with original spine laid down, joints cracking, corners mended but those at the bottom torn.

Bound with:



The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English meter, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. London: Printed by T. P. for the Company of Stationers, 1633.



Title within a woodcut border; small hole in last leaf, lacking final index leaf M8.

Thomas Lancaster (engraved armorial bookplate). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1971

STC 16397 & 2641; ESTC S122865 & S122866; see R. Shackleton, Fine Bindings 1500–1700 from Oxford Libraries, exhibition 1968, pl. 150

see catalogue
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A handsome binding with the arms of King Charles I. A similar example appeared in the Oxford exhibition of 1968.