THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
by Sombre Binding. Book of Common Prayer, Etc
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- Hardcover
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Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, In the Savoy (London): ., 1667 Further details - Bound with: The New Testament - In the Savoy (London): Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1667 - Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Cambridge: Printed by John Field, 1662. Ca. 500 p. Double column text ruled in red throughout. All edges gilt. Small 8vo. 170 x 120 mm. Very good. Contemporary full dark goat skin leather blind tooled English full somber binding. Early marbled endpapers. A very good example of a sombre binding, ca. 1667. The covers are blind tooled in a handsome frame and panel design, that includes small acorns, stars flowers, and vines. The same elements appear on the spine compartments between five raised bands. The richness of the tooling on the binding is effectively disguised by this `black on black' work. Some scholars say that these were most popular in Puritan London where ostentation was frowned upon. But most of these sombre bindings appear after the restoration of King Charles II, and reflect the royal court's encouragement of public and private displays of mourning for the beheading of his father King Charles I. Their use on liturgical books also accelerates after the Great Plague of 1665; and disastrous London Fire a year later. The timing of its use on this particular example certainly illustrates those influences. References: Wing (2nd ed.) B3633AC; Howard Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings; Howard Nixon & Mirjam Foot, The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England; Howard Nixon, The Oldaker Collection of British Bookbindings in Westminster Abbey; Foot, Mirjam M. et al. Eloquent Witnesses, Bookbindings and their History; Miller, Julia, Books Will Speak Plain; A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings; Miner, Dorothy. The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 AD; Hobson. Bindings in Cambridge Libraries; Nixon. Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge; the Henry Davis Gift Catalogue; and other works on historic bindings. The text of this edition of the Book of Common Prayer became the standard for three centuries. SCARCE. CHEST 1/3. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
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- Sombre Binding. Book of Common Prayer, Etc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- 1
- Publisher
- Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, In the Savoy (London): .
- Date Published
- 1667
- Keywords
- RELIGION ENGLAND GREAT BRITAIN BINDINGS FINE PRINTING BIBLE CHURCH OF
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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