[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1762.
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1762.
8vo (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 in). Contemporary red morocco gilt, cornerpieces, claps and catchedges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of the Nativity after Botticelli. Provenance: Estcourt of Estcourt (Bookplate and early ownership inscription, “J.G. Estcourt. The gift of J.A. Bucknall Esq. 1784.”
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