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Prayers Adapted to Various Occasions of Social Worship, for which Provision is not Made in the Book of Common Prayer
by Griswold, Alexander V
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: William Marshall & Co., 1836. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 4 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches. 2 ffep + 271 pages + 4 rfep. Scattered light foxing. Bound in full polished brown calf with gilt decoration to edges of boards which are now worn. Spine with six gilt double bands and red morocco spine label reading "Griswold's Prayers. A nice copy of this book intended to supplement the American BCP. Notable for including an early prayer for temperance meetings.
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- Bookseller
- St. Wulfstans Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 561
- Title
- Prayers Adapted to Various Occasions of Social Worship, for which Provision is not Made in the Book of Common Prayer
- Author
- Griswold, Alexander V
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Marshall & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1836
- Keywords
- Episcopal Common Prayer BCP offices temperance 19th
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
St. Wulfstans Books
Biblio member since 2009
Fayetteville, Arkansas
About St. Wulfstans Books
St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
Glossary
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
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