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Lot 143

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
The Book of Common Prayer

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

The Book of Common Prayer, engraved frontispiece by D. Loggan (1714), ruled in red throughout, contemporary black morocco gilt, covers elaborately tooled wide border incorporating the royal cipher of George II in corners, enclosing two roll and fillet panels, ornamental foliate sprays and cornerpieces, and a centrepiece stamp of the arms of George II, spine richly tooled in eight compartments, g.e., skilfully rebacked preserving original spine [Griffith, 1715: 1], folio (444 x 270mm.), John Baskett, assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1715

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A crisp, large copy, fully ruled in red, of The Book of Common Prayer in an elaborately gilt tooled binding with the arms and cipher of George II.

Provenance: Lord Cadogan, armorial bookplate; monogram bookstamp "RJCM" with an armorial crest of an arm bearing a scimitar.

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