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Book of Common Prayer [BCP] Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University,...
Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1762. 8vo, contemporary full red calf, gilt foliate borders to boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt roll-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; unpaginated, signed: a8-b8, 4, B8-2S8, 2T4; provenance: Mary Courtown 1795 (owner's inscription fly leaf and bookplate with Courtown arms to upper pastedown).
Mary Courtown is likely Lady Mary, daughter of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, who married James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown. The versos of both endpapers have, on separate pages laid down, additional prayers in her hand. The front bearing the Prayer at Our First Entrance into the Church and the rear the text to All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night (though with Glory to Thee, My God as variant opening line).
John Baskerville was one of the most important English typographers, printers and publishers, whose typefaces inspired the computer font named for him. His Cambridge editions of the BCP had several variants, this one is single-columned and does not have the lozenge borders.
Sold for £140
Estimated at £60 - £80
Binding a little rubbed and scuffed, with suggestions of cracking to the joints, internally some variable foxing and spotting, though mostly slight, a very good copy.
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