Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The) and Administration of the Sacraments, text only (lacking portrait frontispiece and without plates), B3 paper repair to margin, B9-10 closed tears and small paper repairs, occasional light spotting, bookplates and ink ownership inscriptions to front paste-down and front free endpapers, contemporary red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt, covers ornate with various foliate and floral motifs, largely reminiscent of vines and with grapes perhaps heightened with darker staining, all these incorporated within a simple strapwork design, spine with similar motifs and draw-handle tools in compartments, repairs to joints, upper joint head continuing to crack, joints cracked, corners slightly bumped, [Wing B3633B], 12mo, John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1668 [sold as a binding, not subject to return].

*** A distinctive 17^th century binding, the design of which appropriately evokes grape vines, often used as a symbol of eternal life and particularly recalling John 5:15 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit, apart from me you can do nothing’.