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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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BX5943 .A1 1815
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Episcopal Church, issuing body.
- Standardized Title:
- Book of common prayer (1790)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Episcopal Church--Liturgy.
- Episcopal Church.
- Episcopal Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Episcopal Church--Creeds.
- Episcopal Church--Hymns.
- Liturgics.
- Genre:
- Creeds
- Hymns
- Prayers and devotions
- Intaglio prints.
- Prayer books.
- Psalters.
- Hymnals.
- Liturgical books.
- Imprimaturs
- Penn Provenance:
- Biddle, Elizabeth, 1800-1891 (former owner) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 380, 107, [1] page, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Baltimore] : Joseph Robinson, printer.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore: : Published by Coale & Maxwell, at the Baltimore Reading Rooms, nearly opposite Gadsby's Hotel, 1815.
- Notes:
- Imprimatur of Bishop Thomas John Claggett, March 15, 1815.
- Frontispiece signed: C. Schwarz.
- Text printed in two columns.
- Error in pagination: page 341 (1st count) numbered 343.
- "The whole book of Psalms, in metre; with hymns, suited to the feasts and fasts of the church, and other occasions of public worship. Baltimore: Published by F. Lucas, Jun'r. and E.J. Coale. Printed by J. Robinson. 1814"--107, [1] pages (2nd count), with special dated title leaf. Assumed to have been issued separately as well; see Shaw 30899. Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries on 23 June 2020 at auction from Bunch Auctions (Chadds Ford, Pa.), Hopkinson Family sale, lot 247.
- Kislak Center copy: left board stamped in gold with owner's name ("ELIZABETH HOPKIN[...]"), that is, Elizabeth Borden Hopkinson (later Keating; subsequently Biddle; 1800-1891).
- Kislak Center copy: boards, backstrip, and free endpapers detached and laid in; portion of left board wanting.
- Cited in:
- Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 35718
- Griffiths, D.N. Book of common prayer, 1815/22
- Contains:
- Bible. Psalms. English. Episcopal Church. 1815.
- OCLC:
- 950915698
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