The Book of Common Prayer

Cambridge: J Baskerville, 1762. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". None. The scarce octavo Baskerville printing of this mid-eighteenth century 'Book of Common Prayer'. This book of Common Prayer was published the same year as a smaller format. This larger format is scarcer. Baskerville was an innovative type designer and printer. His typefaces were greatly admired by Benjamin Franklin. The Baskerville type is regarded as a transitional serif typeface intended as a refinement of the old-style typefaces of the period such as Calson. With 'Price Eight Shillings, unbound' to the title page.  ESTC reference no: T87227.  Collated, complete.A mid-eighteenth century edition of the common prayer and psalms, published after a long period of taunt religious turmoil in England.'The Whole Book of Psalms' collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Sternhold was an English courtier, and was the principal author of this first English metrical rendition of the Psalms.With a table of a calendar containing table of lessons throughout the year, guiding the reading on which prayers to read at morning and evening.Bookplate of R. H. S. Truell to the front pastedown. An important printing of the Book of Common prayer, in a smart contemporary binding. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, with light rubbing to the boards and to the raised bands. Fading to the gilt at the spine. Bookplate to the front pastedown, R Mitford. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots to pages. Very Good Indeed