The New and Complete Family Prayer-Book
London: A. Hogg, [1785]. Hardcover. Folio. [12], [i]-xvi, 9-46, 57-417, [3: ads; directions to book-binder; list of subscribers]. 38 engraved plates. Contemporary calf (lightly rubbed and scuffed), spine with raised bands. Red silk ribbon marker. Text with occasional smudges and mild, marginal dampstains or spotting, but overall clean and crisp. A very good copy, complete with all 36 plates called for in the instructions, and 2 additional. (11 of the plates are bound consecutively in the preliminaries rather than placed in the text; these 11 plates all have relatively simple borders in contrast with the ones properly placed.)
Sumptuously illustrated Church of England prayer book, with a substantial apparatus of theological, historical, and critical commentary. Issued in 36 numbered parts, the text is complete despite the gap in pagination between pages 46 and 57. The anomalous pagination of the preliminaries is explained in the binder's directions: "N.B. Place the Act for the Uniformity of Common-Prayer, &c. and the Tables of Proper Lessons, Feasts, Fasts, Kindred, and to find Easter-Day (viz. 5O and 5P [i.e. 4 leaves of part 36]) immediately after the Preface before the Calendar." Very good condition. Item #52084
References: ESTC T82283.
Price: $950.00