Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book - Illustrations after Dürer and Holbein , 1863: "The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..." , London: Printed by the Chiswick Press - Whittingham and Wilkins / Published by Bickers and Bush, 1863 .

8vo. Scarce original cloth binding. 18.80cm x 13.30cm x 3.80cm (7.25" x 5.00" x 1.50" ). Blind stamp decorated red cloth, over bevelled boards with bright gilt decoration to both front board and spine. Edges lightly rubbed and soiled, corners bumped. All page edges bright gilt. Original brown endpapers. Small binder's label to recto of rear board: "Bound By Leighton Son And Hodge". Clean pages throughout (just the odd brown spot), un-paginated, with woodcut page borders of designs after Holbein, Dürer and his contemporaries. Plus, a woodcut portrait of Elizabeth at prayer to verso of the title-leaf. A very good copy of this Whittingham printing, a classic of Victorian book production, supposedly imitative of Queen Elizabeth's prayer book. Referenced by: (Griffiths 1863/22) . (Book ref. 37184)  £125.00

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