Book of Common Prayer and Psalter
A volume in a contemporary binding containing the 1589 editions of both works, comprising:
[Book of Common Prayer]; The Psalter or Psalmes of David. London: deputies of Christopher Barker [?1589], [paraph]8 A-Z Aa-Ii8 Kk4, single column, Black Letter with some passages in roman type, woodcut title-page border for the Psalter [McKerrow & Ferguson 165], lacking all before [paraph]1, some staining
The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternh. John Hopkins and others... London: John Wolfe for the assignes of Richard Day, 1589, A-L8 M1-7 (of 10?), title within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 198], woodcut initials, typeset music, final extant leaf defective, some staining
2 works in one volume, 4to (200 x 140mm.), contemporary calf with gilt arabesque centre- and cornerpieces, two metal clasps, rebacked
THE UNIQUE SURVIVNG COPY of this edition of the Book of Common Prayer, in a contemporary London binding. The same cornerpieces appear on a binding by Jean de Planche on a 1567 London imprint (Davis Gift 46; for another binding with these cornerpieces, attributed to the "Morocco Binder", see D. Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles, p.58, fig. 3.39).
LITERATURE:Griffiths, BCP 1589/2 (this copy only, "untraced since 1946"); STC 16314.5 & 2475.7 (both this copy only)
PROVENANCE:Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937), sale of the Harmsworth Trust Library, part seven: Catalogue of the unrivalled collection of English prayer books and of Psalters, Sotheby's, 28 January 1946, lot 2160, sold for £9 to Rief; Andrew Rutherford Warren, bookplate; extract from a sale catalogue, lot 312, pasted to inside front cover; Clifford Baylis, bookplate; by family descent
Book of Common Prayer and Psalter
A volume in a contemporary binding containing the 1589 editions of both works, comprising:
[Book of Common Prayer]; The Psalter or Psalmes of David. London: deputies of Christopher Barker [?1589], [paraph]8 A-Z Aa-Ii8 Kk4, single column, Black Letter with some passages in roman type, woodcut title-page border for the Psalter [McKerrow & Ferguson 165], lacking all before [paraph]1, some staining
The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternh. John Hopkins and others... London: John Wolfe for the assignes of Richard Day, 1589, A-L8 M1-7 (of 10?), title within woodcut border [McKerrow & Ferguson 198], woodcut initials, typeset music, final extant leaf defective, some staining
2 works in one volume, 4to (200 x 140mm.), contemporary calf with gilt arabesque centre- and cornerpieces, two metal clasps, rebacked
THE UNIQUE SURVIVNG COPY of this edition of the Book of Common Prayer, in a contemporary London binding. The same cornerpieces appear on a binding by Jean de Planche on a 1567 London imprint (Davis Gift 46; for another binding with these cornerpieces, attributed to the "Morocco Binder", see D. Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles, p.58, fig. 3.39).
LITERATURE:Griffiths, BCP 1589/2 (this copy only, "untraced since 1946"); STC 16314.5 & 2475.7 (both this copy only)
PROVENANCE:Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937), sale of the Harmsworth Trust Library, part seven: Catalogue of the unrivalled collection of English prayer books and of Psalters, Sotheby's, 28 January 1946, lot 2160, sold for £9 to Rief; Andrew Rutherford Warren, bookplate; extract from a sale catalogue, lot 312, pasted to inside front cover; Clifford Baylis, bookplate; by family descent
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