The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, bound with A Companion to the Altar; shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation in or to our worthy receiving the Holy Communion and the whole book of Psalms collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others

Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by W.Jackson and A.Hamilton, 1786. Book. Good. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Bound in period dark red leather with gilt tooling, five raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges originally gilt but only faint evidence of this. Previous owners initials, A.S.H. in gilt on the front cover (the reverse of the front endpaper bears the inscription Ann Speed Hodgskin her book 1789). Another later previous owners name on reverse of frontispiece. The covers are quite rubbed and shelfworn, binding holding firmly. The page facing plate 22 has a three inch horizontal tear. Light browning to text throughout. Foxing to last few pages. Three works bound in one volume. The titles are as follows: 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. Printed at the Clarendon Press, by W.Jackson and A Hamilton, Printers to the University MDCCLXXXI (1786), engraved frontispiece depicting a head and shoulders portrait of George II., 50 further engraved plates. 2. A Companion to the Altar; Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation in order to our worthy receiving the Holy Communion wherein those Fears and Scruples about Eating and Drinking Unworthily and of meurring our own Damnation thereby are proved groundless and unwarrantable, Unto which are added Prayers and Meditations, London; Printed by Assignment from Beecroft for Scatcherd and Whitaker, No.12 Ave Maria Lane. Engraved frontispiece.(undated) 3. The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew; Set forth and allowed to be Sung in all Churches, of all the People together, before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and also before and after Sermons; and moreover in private houses, for their godly Solace and Comfort; laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend only to the nourishing of Vice, and corrupting of Youth. Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, by W.Jackson and A.Hamilton, Printers to the University MDCCLXXXVIII (1788).