Binding: The Book of Common Prayer, John Baskett, 1720

Binding

The Book of Common Prayer…,

no frontispiece, text ruled in red, lacking all after Z8 including the engravings, some earlier quires loose, contemporary panelled morocco, corner fleurons with acorns, gilt-tooled spine, a.e.g., loss at head of spine, rubbed, John Baskett, and the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1720; The New Week’s Preparation For a Worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper…, 4pp. Ms ‘Prayer for a woman who hath lost her Husband’ dated 1799 to front endpaper and flyleaves, spotting and browning throughout, contemporary straight-grained morocco, worn, W. Bent, [1792]; v.s., with another, defective (3)