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The Book of Common Prayer,: and the Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites ... use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David ..
by PRINTING, ILLUSTRATION & TYPOGRAPHY] BYFIELD Mary (woodcutter)]
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- Hardcover
- first
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'A TRIUMPH OF PRINTING
AS WELL AS OF ILLUSTRATION AND TYPOGRAPHY'
IN AN APPROPRIATE SCOTTISH BINDING
first edition thus 12mo. (in sixes) collates a-d6, B-Z6, AA-KK6, a-z6, AA6 (that is 720 pages) printed in Caslon type, title page printed in red and black within a deep and striking woodcut border representing the Tree of Jesse, full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title page, text inside varied and complex decorative and pictorial woodcut borders throughout by Mary Byfield, decorative initial letters, contemporary dark purple morocco over bevelled boards (signed on verso of front free endpaper "Orrock Binder Edinb."), sides blocked with 8 nesting borders of blind fillets and rolls some crossing at the corners to make small corner compartments with a leaf tool in blind in each, spine with raised bands and blind tooling, direct lettered gilt, all edges gilt, purple ribbon marker, some very minor and scattered light foxing, some light rubbing else a nice copy. Handsome copy of a most attractive book.
GRIFFITHS Bibliography .. Book of Common Prayer, 1853, 22
"The cuts harmonize perfectly with the type and this small tome is a triumph of printing as well as of illustration and typography" [R. McLean Victorian Book Design (1972) p.12].For this book, Mary Byfield (1795-1871), who spent most of her life working for the Chiswick Press, cut over 100 wood blocks. These blocks, many of great beauty, were in the main based on early designs by Holbein, Dürer, Tory, &c. copied from Queen Elizabeth's Book of Christian Prayers, London 1581 and 1590, but they also included some based on contemporary designs by Charlotte Whittingham, although to distinguish the old from the new is virtually impossible.
This edition was afterwards reissued by other publishers.
AS WELL AS OF ILLUSTRATION AND TYPOGRAPHY'
IN AN APPROPRIATE SCOTTISH BINDING
first edition thus 12mo. (in sixes) collates a-d6, B-Z6, AA-KK6, a-z6, AA6 (that is 720 pages) printed in Caslon type, title page printed in red and black within a deep and striking woodcut border representing the Tree of Jesse, full-page woodcut of Queen Elizabeth on verso of title page, text inside varied and complex decorative and pictorial woodcut borders throughout by Mary Byfield, decorative initial letters, contemporary dark purple morocco over bevelled boards (signed on verso of front free endpaper "Orrock Binder Edinb."), sides blocked with 8 nesting borders of blind fillets and rolls some crossing at the corners to make small corner compartments with a leaf tool in blind in each, spine with raised bands and blind tooling, direct lettered gilt, all edges gilt, purple ribbon marker, some very minor and scattered light foxing, some light rubbing else a nice copy. Handsome copy of a most attractive book.
GRIFFITHS Bibliography .. Book of Common Prayer, 1853, 22
"The cuts harmonize perfectly with the type and this small tome is a triumph of printing as well as of illustration and typography" [R. McLean Victorian Book Design (1972) p.12].For this book, Mary Byfield (1795-1871), who spent most of her life working for the Chiswick Press, cut over 100 wood blocks. These blocks, many of great beauty, were in the main based on early designs by Holbein, Dürer, Tory, &c. copied from Queen Elizabeth's Book of Christian Prayers, London 1581 and 1590, but they also included some based on contemporary designs by Charlotte Whittingham, although to distinguish the old from the new is virtually impossible.
This edition was afterwards reissued by other publishers.
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- Bookseller
- P & B Rowan
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13061
- Title
- The Book of Common Prayer,
- Author
- PRINTING, ILLUSTRATION & TYPOGRAPHY] BYFIELD Mary (woodcutter)]
- Illustrator
- Byfield, Mary
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Pickering [printed by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
- Size
- 12mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated woman artist woodcuts
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