The Book of Common Prayer, 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book. John E. Booty.
The Book of Common Prayer, 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book

The Book of Common Prayer, 1559: The Elizabethan Prayer Book

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.

8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 427pp. Stated second printing. Unpriced dust jacket with moderate rubbing and spotting to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A facsimile reprinting (in contemporary Anglicized letters) of the original 1559 Book of Common Prayer authored by Thomas Cranmer. Typography and design, tables and charts follow those of the original sixteenth century edition. Edited with notes, and a historical essay by John E. Booty and published by for the Folger Shakespeare Library by the University of Virginia Press. A handsome edition, nearly fine in mylar. 

. Fine.

Price: $50.00

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