[Fore-Edge Painting]. Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and ceremonies ...
Description
A Beautiful and Rare Seventeenth-Century Fore-Edge Painting in a Superb Binding
[Fore-Edge Painting]. Book of Common Prayer, and
Administration of the Sacraments: and other rites and
ceremonies of the Church of England: with the Psalter, or Psalmes
of David. Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel,
printers to the University of Cambridge, 1638. Folio. Approximately
15.25 x 9.75 inches. With separate title-pages for The
Holy Bible, The New Testament, and the Whole Book
of Psalmes. A-H6, I3, A-Ggg6, Hhh-Iii4, Kkk-Xxx6, Yyy4, A-R6,
A-I6 pages. Many historiated initials, text printed in double
columns and ruled in red throughout. The title-pages are heavily
ruled and with decorative borders of fleurons, the Holy Bible
title-page engraved by William Marshall. Main title-page with two
repaired tears and a small puncture hole, small wormtrail in margin
toward end of text. Text has some minor soiling and rubbing. Ink
inscription on front flyleaf (see below). Complete. Beautifully
bound by the Byzantium Studios Bindery in an excellent modern
imitation English cottage-style red Turkey morocco, covers
elaborately ruled and paneled in gilt with elaborate gilt central
floral motifs, with finely-executed black morocco onlays, spine
elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments, seven raised bands,
turn-ins triple-ruled in blind. Contemporary (seventeenth-century)
gilt edges. Illustrated with a very early English fore-edge
painting of a flaming heart surrounded by flowers dated 1656 [?].
The central heart bears the inscription, "Cor Mundu Crea in me
Deus" ("Create a clean heart in me O God"). The fore-edge
painting is a bit toned due to age, but still is an excellent and
very rare example of an early (mid-seventeenth century) fore-edge
painting.
More Information:
"In this edition... the work of correction begun in the folio Cambridge Bible of 1629 was carried further. The revisers took special pains to render uniform the use of italics; and they also introduced a certain number of new readings... This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762." (Darlow and Moule, p. 182). Laid-in is a four-page handwritten description of how two ladies bought this book from Stevens & Brown in London in 1956, and later donated it to an Episcopal church in 1970. The front flyleaf bears an ink inscription attesting to this donation from the two buyers.
Darlow and Moule 403. Griffiths 1683.2. Herbert 520. STC 16410, 2331, 2682.
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