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12mo. A scarce 1843 Eyre & Spottiswoode edition of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.12mo. Not paginated. Bound in green velvet, boards with brass edging and clasp, small brass shield on cover. Inside on verso of cover are embossed metal endpapers which face richly embossed paper endpapers. A contemporary inscription reads Lucy Allen a present from her cousin and godfather L.A. Godwin April 1st 1858. Inside the pages are slightly toned along the top edged, otherwise in excellent condition. The outside of the book has suffered. The velvet has worn away and dusty, the metal clasp does work but has bent on the cover. TLC desperately needed. Size 10 x 6.5cm, depth 5cm (4 x 2.5 inches, depth 1.75 inches) The Book of Common Prayer was and is used in many churches in the Anglican Communion. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome. The 1549 book was soon succeeded by a more reformed revision in 1552 under the same editorial hand, that of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1604, James I ordered some further changes, the most significant of these being the addition to the Catechism of a section on the Sacraments. Following the tumultuous events leading to and including the English Civil War, another major revision was published in 1662, and that edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England. Together with the King James Authorized version of the Bible and the works of Shakespeare, the Book of Common Prayer has been one of the three fundamental underpinnings of modern English. As it has been in regular use for centuries, many phrases from its services have passed into the English, either as deliberate quotations or as unconscious borrowings. The publisher of this edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd., was the London-based printing firm that was the King's Printer through 1929. It became part of Associated Book Publishers and merged with Methuen Publishing in the 1970s. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 60002535
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