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The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to The Church of England; with notes upon the epistles gospels and psalms By a Member of the Established Church
1813AQ30910London: Sold by Otridge and Son et al. 1813. xxvi 482pp. Printed in double columns. Handsomely bound in near contemporary richly gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco lettered in gilt to upper board 'Wm. Vavasour' A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked spine sunned. Marbled endpapers newspaper clipping pasted to FEP extracts of devotional verse in manuscript to blank fly-leaves later newspaper clippings relating to the Vavasour family to front blank fly- leaf very occasional light spotting terminal gathering and rear endpapers dampstained at head. Early inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'For / Doctor Vavasour L.L. D. / from / The Author / through Doctor Hales' and annotation: 'Judge Baillie / the author'. The first edition of judge and legal writer John Bayley's 1763-1841 explication of the Anglican liturgy. This copy was once the property of Church of England clergyman and sometime minister of Stow-on-the-Wold Richard Frederick Vavasour 1786-1853 and evidently later passed to his son William Thomas Vavasour 1820-1863. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at nine locations BL Cambridge Johns Hopkins NT Nebraska Oxford Pennsylvania RISD and VTS. . First edition. 8vo. Sold by Otridge and Son et al. unknown
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