Shelfmark
He1.5.15
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Uniform title
[Book of common prayer. 1636.]
Title
Fac-simile of the black-letter prayer book : containing manuscript alterations and additions made in the year 1661, "Out of which was fairly written" the Book of Common Prayer subscribed, December 20. A.D. 1661, by the convocations of Canterbury and York, and annexed to the Act of Uniformity, 13 & 14 Car. II., C. 4, A.D. 1662. / Photo-zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, (Major-General, Sir Henry James, R.E., F.R.S., &c., Director-General) and published for the Royal Commission on Ritual, by authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
Varying form of title
Facsimile of the black letter prayer book
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Oxford : Cambridge : Longman and Co. ; Basil M. Pickering ; Parker and Co. ; Macmillan and Co. ; 1871.
Physical description
[12], 514 p. : facsims. ; 45 cm.
Note
The introductory essay is signed A.P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster.
Note
The certification is signed in facsimile by Henry James, Director General of the Ordnance Survey, and William Basevi Sanders, Assistant Keeper of Her Majesty's Records.
Note
A facsimile of the black-letter prayer book of 1636 with marginal manuscript notes and alterations from which the copy attached to the Act of Uniformity, 13 and 14 Car. II., was written.
Provenance
Ms. inscription recording the donation of the volume to Eton College by Francis Edward Durnford in 1871.
Binding
19th century imitation-vellum binding; gilt spine title on brown leather compartment with gilt decoration.
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Pickering, Basil Montagu, 1836 - 1878 publisher.
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Durnford, Francis Edward former owner.
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Great Britain Board of Ordnance.
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Longman & Co publisher.
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James Parker and Co. publisher.
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Macmillan & Co. publisher.
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Great Britain Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Rubrics, Orders, and Directions for Regulating the Course and Conduct of Public Worship, &c, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland.
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England London.
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England Oxford.
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England Cambridge.
Identifier
B45214