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1726AQ31788London: Printed by George James Printer to the Honourable City of London 1726. Single leaf broadside. Somewhat marked with some creasing and tearing to extremities especially at horizontal folds. A rare survival of an early eighteenth-century broadside reprinting - ordered to be distributed within the capital by the Common Council of the City of London Corporation - of two specific English laws applying severe penalties to negligent careless and criminal servants. The vast majority of the Common Council of the City of London Corporation were issued either in folio or as here broadside format. As the preamble states the intention of this was so that this legal reminder could be be 'sent into the several Wards' of London 'and by the Beadles delivered to every House-keeper that all Servants may be acquainted with the same and know the Penalties therein contain'd'. The two specific laws highlighted are 'the Clause relating to Servants in a late Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of Queen Anne.Entituled An Act for the better Preventing Mischiefs that may happen by Fire' and 'also another Clause relating to Servants.Entituled An Act for the more effectual Preventing and Punishing of Robberies that shall be committed in Houses'. The first as the broadside shows made the provision for the forfeiture of 'One hundred Pounds unto the Church-Wardens of such Parish where such Fire shall happen to be distributed amongst the Sufferers by such Fire' by any 'Servant or Servants' who 'thought Negligence or Carelessness shall fire or cause to be fired any Dwelling-House or Out-House or Houses'. The second barred 'all and every Person or Persons that shall be at any time from and after the First Day of July in the Year 1713 feloniously steal any Money Goods or Chattels Wares or Merchandizes of the Value of Forty Shillings or more.shall by Virtue of this Act be abolutely debarr'd of and from the Benefit of Clergy'. ESTC locates copies at just three British libraries BL Guildhall Museum of London and just two elsewhere Harvard and Kansas. ESTC T40013. Dimensions 308 x 390 mm. Printed by George James, Printer to the Honourable City of London unknown
174334408London: Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1743. Leather bound. Poor. Octavo. Unpaginated. Text is printed in double columns. Text block trimmed. Binding in poor condition. Boards are rubbed dry and detached. Missing title label on the spine. Leather spine is very worn. Text is clean with light toning. Inscription of Robert Higginson 1746 written on the contents page. Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty unknown
17151067831715. London: printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1715. <br /> <br /> Folio 380 23 3 pp. unpaginated text ends on Aaa4 as per ESTC. Engraved frontispiece by Loggan after Caspars. Title-page printed in red and black ruled in red throughout. Contemporary red morocco covers tooled in gilt with a wide scrolled border central gilt block of the arms of the Duke of Chandos backstrip richly gilt gilt edges a lovely binding of the period in the style of Mearne skillfully restored at head and foot and along joints. Armorial bookplate of John van Hatten.<br /> <br /> § Lovely prayer book bound for James Brydges 1st Duke of Chandos 1674-1744. It once rested on an embroidered cushion in the Duke and Duchess's private pew in his magnificent chapel at Cannons described by the architect Gibbs as "the finest in England." The centerpiece of the elaborately-tooled binding is the Duke's gilt arms supported by two otters beneath a ducal coronet. Four other bindings with the block are recorded by the British Armorial Bindings database. Full description and provenance available on request. ESTC T81463. unknown
17182514The Hague: C. Fritsch 1718. Very good. 8vo. xliv 728 2 pp. text lightly foxed. Collation: a-b⸠cⶠA-2Y⸠2Zⶠ-2Z6 a blank as per the Emory Pitts copy. Bound in 18th-century red morocco boards elaborately gilt à la dentelle spine elaborately gilt with raised bands morocco label a.e.g. spine and extremities somewhat rubbed. Bookplate of the Washington Cathedral Library inside upper cover. Title-page trimmed at top removing the name of an early owner and backed with later paper. Preserved in a protective cloth case. AN ENIGMATIC BINDING AT ONE TIME ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT AITKEN OF PHILADELPHIA THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL EARLY AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS. CERTAINLY IT SHARES THE EXTREMELY DISTINCTIVE SPINE TOOL WITH THE NYPL-LENOX COPY OF AITKEN'S 1782 BIBLE WHICH WE EXAMINED PERSONALLY AND YET THE DENTELLE TOOLS ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE EMPLOYED BY RICHARD MONTAGU FOR THOMAS HOLLIS. <br /> <br /> This is the first complete German edition of the Book of Common Prayer including the Lections and Ordinals. It was probably translated into German by J.J. Caesar chaplain to King Frederick I of Prussia who had attempted to united the Lutheran and Reformed churches of Germany into a single episcopal church in communion with the Church of England.<br /> <br /> Published in 1718 our binding belongs certainly to the latter half of the 18th-century; it is therefore this book's second binding. The spine label reads "Prayer Book" and not "Gebet-Buch" and thus it was bound either in America or England and not in Germany or The Netherlands. Based on tool identification our binding may have been made in the same workshop as that which bound the Lenox-NYPL 1782 Aitken Bible. In 1902 the NYPL binding was attributed Aitken's own shop William Loring Andrews Bibliopegy in the United States p. 59 with a poor reproduction on plate XIV. Whereas the Lenox copy is by comparison relatively plain it shares with ours the unmistakable deformed bird / floral ornament in the spine compartments. The repeated tools on the covers have so far resisted identification despite extensive searching over a period of several years through innumerable reference works on early American and British bookbinding printed and online. Concerning the former there is a very serious lack of published scholarship and so we set our sights on the largest collection of unpublished notes on American bookbinding in the world namely Willman Spawn's gargantuan hopelessly disorganized archive of rubbings and files at the American Philosophical Society. We proceeded through Box 28 and yet more than 100 boxes remain to be explored. Whatever his nationality our binder was inspired by the work of Richard Montagu specifically his work for Thomas Hollis ca. 1758-1761 see Howard Nixon's Five Hundred Years of English Bookbinding nos. 68 and 69 although the tools are NOT identical to ours. <br /> <br /> According to a typed note from the American Cathedral Library where the present volume resided for at least 60 years until it was purchased by William Reese it was bound possibly for presentation to William White 1748-1836 the first Bishop of Philadelphia. On this card the identity of the binder is confidently assigned to Robert Aitken himself. Whether or not the binding originated from Aitken's shop or if indeed it is even American there can be no doubt that it was in Philadelphia at a very early date and its provenance is unbroken since that time see below. Certainly William White would have had need for a German language Book of Common Prayer to administer to his already significant German-speaking congregation. White knew well his Philadelphia neighbor Robert Aitken and as one of the Chaplains of the Congress of the United States he examined Aitken's Bible when it was in 1782. White was also the first President of the first Bible Society in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1808. <br /> <br /> That Aitken printed and published the 1782 Bible does not automatically imply that he was the binder of the Lenox-NYPL copy or any others but the names of several of his former employees are known including James Muir who remained in Philadelphia and William Andrews who relocated to Boston. Another copy of the 1782 Aitken Bible remains unstudied namely that in the John Carter Brown Library which features a similarly decorated spine. <br /> <br /> Our binding was no doubt an expensive commission; that the tooling on it has remained so fresh is perhaps due to a paper or fabric covering that seems to have once surrounded it: inside the boards are traces of adhesive near the gutter margins at the top and bottom precisely where a covering would have been attached. <br /> <br /> Of this first edition of the German Language Book of Common Prayer there are copies at Huntington Lancaster Theological Seminary Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity United Lutheran Seminary Philadelphia and Emory. <br /> <br /> ¶ PROVENANCE: William White Bishop of Philadelphia -- old presentation inscription excised from title-page no doubt written in English in the 18th century with one remaining word clearly visible: "To" -- Suffrage Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania Samuel Bowman 1800-1861 -- by descent to his daughter Ellen Ledlie Bowman married Thomas Hubbard Vail Episcopal Bishop of Kansas -- by descent to their daughter Kellen Sitrgreaves Vail Motter 1870-1952 -- donated to the National Cathedral Library of Washington DC -- purchased by William Reese who sold it to us on behalf of a private collector -- bought back by us in 2023. <br /> <br /> For an account of Robert Aitken's bindery see Willman and Carol Spawn's "The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth Century Bindery and its Tools" in: PBSA LVII 1963 pp. 422-437 although the title is misleading as the images are unnecessarily few in number ditto Willman Spawn's "Extra-Gilt Bindings of Robert Aitken 1787-88" in: Proceedings of the AAS pp. 415-417. The dentelle tools on the covers of our binding appear to be reproduced here for the first time. C. Fritsch unknown
1717D19721London: John Baskett for John Sturt 1717. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 196x122 mm contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt-tooled to all-over pattern of floral and ornamental tools rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip endpapers renewed. Volvelle on page v supplied in facsimile. xxii 166 pages; lacks the final ad leaf. Text and numerous illustrations entirely engraved throughout by John Sturt including micrographic portrait of George I double portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales and different historiated or ornamental border on each page. 19th-century German owners' inscriptions on front endleaf. <br/><br/> John Baskett for John Sturt hardcover
179935220Oxford England: Printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Dawson T. Bensley and J. Cooke Printers to the University 1799. Leather bound. Fair. 12mo. Three separate title pages. Red moroccan leather with gilt decorations on the spine. Marbled end papers. Gilt edges are faded. Text block is toned and shaken with loose signatures.There is a partial clipping pinned to the last two pages. Unpaginated signatures are numbered. Type is printed in double columns. Fair only. <br /> <br /> First title page is for the Book of Common Prayer. The second title page reads: "A Companion to the Altar" is printed in London no date. 55 pages 1 page advertisement. Includes frontispiece. The third title page reads - "A New Edition of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes in Churches" by N. Brady. Printed in London 1799. 90 pages. Bound in back are 2 pages with the heading: "At the Kensignton. December 3 1696. Present The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council." Second page is dated May 23d 1698. The first sentence reads - "His Majesty having Allowed and Permitted the Use of a New Version of the Psalms of David by Dr. Brady and Mr. Tate in all Churches." The printed name of H. London is at the bottom of the text. Printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, and J. Cooke, Printers to the University unknown
1795371094New York: Hugh Gaine 1795. Printed in two columns. 208pp. A-d2 A-3B2. Folio. Contemporary black morocco gilt rebacked marbled endpapers gilt edges. Staining to title and first few leaves losses at lower outer corners of A1-C2 partly supplied in early manuscript Provenance: Christ Church Baltimore in gilt on upper cover. Printed in two columns. 208pp. A-d2 A-3B2. Folio. Very rare first folio edition of the 1789 United States Book of Common Prayer the second standard American prayer book beautifully printed by Gaine and designed for lecturn use. Most extant examples with the leaves containing the morning and evening daily prayers defective from overuse A1-C2 as here. Evans 29362; Griffiths Book of Common Prayer 1795:11; ESTC W29998 Hugh Gaine unknown
1797305572Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Dawson T. Bensley and J. Cooke 1797. xxxii 360 pp. 8vo. Bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt spine a.e.g. Covers rubbed and soiled pages finger-soiled. xxxii 360 pp. 8vo. Bound with: A New Version of the Psalms of David . London: Company of Stationers 1798. 228 pp. Griffiths 1797:3 Printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, and J. Cooke unknown
1791311008Oxford; and London: Printed at the Clarendon Press By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton 1791. xxii 536 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary c. 1802 full straight-grained blue morocco covers with gilt Greek key border flat spine divided into five compartments lettered in one central panel of wavy gilt lines the rest tooled in gilt with Christogram or sunburst tool over semé of dots a.e.g. Light rubbing to extremities. xxii 536 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. bound with: The Whole Book Psalms Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and Others . Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Dawson Bensley and Cooke 1801.<br /> A beautiful copy in a fine contemporary binding. Griffiths 1791/7; ESTC T093069. Provenance: William Smith 1802 dated blue morocco ownership label on front pastedown Printed at the Clarendon Press, By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton unknown
1794231248New York: Hugh Gaine 1794. hardcover. good. according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. 364 171 5 pp. Thick 18mo contemporary calf spine and edges of corners worn corners bumped endpapers and title page lightly soiled some pages with very light foxing. New-York: By direction of the General Convention printed by Hugh Gaine 1794.<br/> <br/> In 1789 the Episcopal Church of the United States approved the use of text starting in 1790. It remained in use for the next 102 years. Evans 27577. Ford The Journals of Hugh Gaine Vol. I p. 170.<br/> <br/> Hugh Gaine unknown
171437200London: Printed by John Baskett. Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Deceased 1714. Engraved title page. Printed in black and red ruled in red. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in full red morocco richly gilt spine six panels raised bands gilt dentelles marbled endpapers a.e.g. Engraved title page. Printed in black and red ruled in red. 1 vols. Folio. Printed by John Baskett. Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, Dece unknown
1717244221London: J. Sturt 1717. Shortened version of Sturt's 1717 engraved Book of Common Prayer. 85 pp. pagination irregular text and vignettes entirely engraved throughout. Lacking engraved frontispiece portrait of Queen Anne and second title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary vellum covers with central gilt-ruled cross. Covers bowed internally fine. Shortened version of Sturt's 1717 engraved Book of Common Prayer. 85 pp. pagination irregular text and vignettes entirely engraved throughout. Lacking engraved frontispiece portrait of Queen Anne and second title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. Griffiths 1717/4; ESTC N33764 J. Sturt unknown
179825493New York: By Direction of the General Convention. Printed by Hugh Gaine at the Bible Pearl-Street 1798. 372 171 5 p. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary American sheep four raised bands front cover off. Blind stamp on title page and another. Shurtleff College library stamp on endpapers. 372 171 5 p. 1 vols. 12mo. Evans 34420; ESTC W9614 By Direction of the General Convention. Printed by Hugh Gaine at the Bible, Pearl-Street unknown
172925164London: Printed by the Assigns of His Majesty's Printer and of Henry Hills deceas'd 1729. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full brown goatskin gilt seven compartment spine gilt double fillet outer border pointille inner border with arabesque corner pieces marbled endpapers. With some wear at spine and corners. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed by the Assigns of His Majesty's Printer, and of Henry Hills deceas'd unknown