Lot 63
Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), Oxford, printed by John Baskett, sold by John Sturt and J. Nutt , 1716; and 2 others in contemporary bindings (3)
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), text in red and black and red-ruled border throughout, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title and 52 plates only (of 55), some browning and foxing to plates, elsewhere occasional minor browning or stains to margins, front endpaper with genealogical notes in 19th century hand, handsome in contemporary ornate cottage roof binding of black morocco richly gilt, covers with massed volutes, foliate sprays, acorns, fleurons and stars within roll-tool and fillet border, spine with thistle and rose in compartments, slight wear to upper joint foot, elswehre minute rubbing to extremities, g.e., Oxford, printed by John Baskett, sold by John Sturt and J. Nutt, 1716 § [Howell (Laurence)] The Orthodox Communicant, by way of Meditation..., engraved throughout by John Sturt, red-ruled borders throughout, lacking dedication leaf and list of subscribers, bookplate, marbled endpapers renewed, contemporary sombre binding of black morocco, stamped in blind with thistle, leaf, various fleurons and small volutes forming a panel design, a tiny scuff to upper cover, some light rubbing to extremities, g.e., by J. Sturt, 1721 § New Testament (The), Oxford, by the University Printers, 1704, bound with a Booke of Psalms (Oxford, by the University Printers, 1711) and c.60ff from the Old Testament, together in attractive contemporary black morocco richly gilt, with central lozenge and corner-pieces of massed volutes, from which emanating tulips, daisies, and foliate sprays, other tooling of circles and flowers, the whole within roll-tool border, tiny tear at upper joint head and expert repair upper corner, g.e., v.s. (3)
Description
Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), text in red and black and red-ruled border throughout, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title and 52 plates only (of 55), some browning and foxing to plates, elsewhere occasional minor browning or stains to margins, front endpaper with genealogical notes in 19th century hand, handsome in contemporary ornate cottage roof binding of black morocco richly gilt, covers with massed volutes, foliate sprays, acorns, fleurons and stars within roll-tool and fillet border, spine with thistle and rose in compartments, slight wear to upper joint foot, elswehre minute rubbing to extremities, g.e., Oxford, printed by John Baskett, sold by John Sturt and J. Nutt, 1716 § [Howell (Laurence)] The Orthodox Communicant, by way of Meditation..., engraved throughout by John Sturt, red-ruled borders throughout, lacking dedication leaf and list of subscribers, bookplate, marbled endpapers renewed, contemporary sombre binding of black morocco, stamped in blind with thistle, leaf, various fleurons and small volutes forming a panel design, a tiny scuff to upper cover, some light rubbing to extremities, g.e., by J. Sturt, 1721 § New Testament (The), Oxford, by the University Printers, 1704, bound with a Booke of Psalms (Oxford, by the University Printers, 1711) and c.60ff from the Old Testament, together in attractive contemporary black morocco richly gilt, with central lozenge and corner-pieces of massed volutes, from which emanating tulips, daisies, and foliate sprays, other tooling of circles and flowers, the whole within roll-tool border, tiny tear at upper joint head and expert repair upper corner, g.e., v.s. (3)
