[The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America : together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Episcopal Church.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Book of common prayer (1790)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Episcopal Church--Liturgy--Texts.

Episcopal Church.

Bible. Psalms--Paraphrases, English.

Bible.

Bible. Psalms.

Liturgics.

Genre:

Texts.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

19+ unnumbered pages, 580 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York?] : [New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society?], [between 1871 and 1892]

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: title leaf wanting. The text is that adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in 1871 and used until the revision of 1892; the layout matches that of the "standard edition" published by the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society. Title and place of imprint supplied by cataloger from the Society's "standard edition."

Signatures: A2-A12 B-2B¹²

Binding: full calf(?) with boards double-ruled in blind; left board has a blind-stamped Christogram within a light brown vesica piscis double-ruled in blind; 5 raised bands on spine; spine panels double-ruled in blind at head and foot; title ("Common Prayer") stamped in gold on spine; dark brown(?) endpapers; all edges red and gilt.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy: small divot in tail margin of left board, front free endpaper and some leaves at beginning of text.

OCLC:

948834773