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The Book of Common Prayer
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Oxford University Press, 1856. Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Small prayer book bound in dark blue velvet with gilt metal decorative edging and clasp. Velvet is slightly worn on spine edges. Front hinge is just beginning to crack. Pages are age-tanned but clean. Pages are gilt edged. Previous owner's dedication on fep dated 1858. A beautiful little book. DC 1856
Sinopsis
This exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorates the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers (Austen, Swift, the Brontës). It features a new introduction by The New Yorker ’s book critic, James Wood, discussing how it has influenced the English language and literature. As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth century by Thomas Cranmer, who was burned at the stake upon the accession to the throne of the ardently Catholic Queen Mary, it contains the entire liturgy as first presented in English—as well as some of the oldest phrases to be used by modern English speakers. Here are the daily prayers, scripture readings, psalm recitals, and the services marking such religious milestones as baptism, confirmation, and marriage (“to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, to till death do us part”), all from the 1662 edition, whose words live on to this day sin figures of speech, ceremonial vows and benedictions, and in the work of some of the greatest writers in English literature.
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- Librería
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2720
- Título
- The Book of Common Prayer
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1856
- Tamaño
- 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall
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Reader’s Books
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Petworth, West Sussex
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Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
