Book of Common Prayer | The Forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng Bishoppes, Priestes, and Deacons. London: Richard Grafton, August 1552

Book of Common Prayer

The Forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng Bishoppes, Priestes, and Deacons. London: Richard Grafton, August 1552

2 parts in 1, folio (260 x 184mm.), black letter, device and colophon on verso of C5, the second part (“The Forme and maner”) with woodcut title, eighteenth-century calf, the first part (BCP) lacking all to A1, supplied in early pen and ink, A1 and A2 "An Acte for the Uniformitie of common prayer" with margins cut down (? from another copy); a5-b6, 20pp, "The Table and Kalender" present (partly printed in red and black, ?from another edition); lacking R6 (supplied in MS) and possibly 6 other leaves, Cc5 cut down and mounted, lacks final leaf, A2 & B2 corner torn slightly affecting text, A5 & B1 tear slightly affecting text, a few other small tears, browned and stained, slight worming mostly in margins, binding rebacked and rubbed, sold not subject to return

PROVENANCE:

"Mr. Fothergill's Booke", red ink inscription on fly-leaf; numerous annotations some with comparisons with the 1549 edition of the second part (annotation to The Preface of the second part, "The ordinal printed by Grafton, March 1549 was collated wth this"), mostly in an early 18th century hand, probably the antiquarian Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725), whose ownership inscription appears at end; John Lindsay "Presbyter of ye Church of England", three bookplates; Ernest Richard Orlando Bridgeman, Rector of Blymhill, bookplate

LITERATURE: STC 16286.3 (?)