Common Prayer, English The Book of Common Prayer, engraved frontispiece, title in black and red within frame, with woodcut Royal coat of arms, ornaments, double column, occasional spotting, marginal loss to title, 4pp contemporary annotations on family trees and signatures, including Elisabeth Thornton, 1752, contemporary green grain morocco, elaborately gilt tooled with floral motif and corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., a little rubbed, upper board lower corner scuffed, extremities slightly bumped, folio, Thomas Backett, 1751. Provenance. From the library of John Bird Sumner (1780-1862), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848. It was found in a house owned by the Sumner family before passing to the actual owners. Although John Bird Sumner was not Archbishop of Canterbury at the time Queen Victoria married, it has always been said that the Prayer Book was used during the Royal wedding in Westminster Abbey. Inside was discovered a letter by Prince Albert to the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the occasion of the death of the Archbishop’s wife on 5th February 1861.
Common Prayer, English The Book of Common Prayer, engraved frontispiece, title in black and red within frame, with woodcut Royal coat of arms, ornaments, double column, occasional spotting, marginal loss to title, 4pp contemporary annotations on family trees and signatures, including Elisabeth Thornton, 1752, contemporary green grain morocco, elaborately gilt tooled with floral motif and corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., a little rubbed, upper board lower corner scuffed, extremities slightly bumped, folio, Thomas Backett, 1751. Provenance. From the library of John Bird Sumner (1780-1862), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848. It was found in a house owned by the Sumner family before passing to the actual owners. Although John Bird Sumner was not Archbishop of Canterbury at the time Queen Victoria married, it has always been said that the Prayer Book was used during the Royal wedding in Westminster Abbey. Inside was discovered a letter by Prince Albert to the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the occasion of the death of the Archbishop’s wife on 5th February 1861.
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