Bible, Devotionals - Bindings: The Book of Common Prayer, [....

Hammer

£130

Bible, Devotionals - Bindings: The Book of Common Prayer, [...] with The Psalter, or Psalms of David [...], London: Published for John Reeves, Esq., [...] Sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1802, red-ruled throughout, printed in double-columns, finely bound in contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, flat spine, gilt edges, yellow endpapers, 8vo, (1); another BCP, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1801, extra-illustrated with 1 named-view of Horsley Church, Derbyshire, and tipped-in MS. leaf, finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt, gilt edges and dentelles, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); Brady's and Tate's New Version of the Psalms, London: A. Wilde, 1757, [issued with a] BCP lacking all before M, contemporary gilt-panelled blue morocco, 8vo, (1), [3]

Provenance: 1st: John Cator, probably the English timber merchant and MP (1728-1806); his Chippendale armorial bookplate to recto pastedown; 2nd: 1st) Mary Every (née Morley of Horsley, Derbyshire), her ink MS. title-page ownership inscription as the Dowager Lady Every, her third marriage (of 4) being to Sir Edward Every, Baronet of Egginton, Derbyshire; 2nd) by descent to her daughter Emma Penelope Spilsbury (née Moseley), wife of the Rev. Francis Ward Spilsbury of Willington, Derbyshire, tipped-in MS. leaf; 3rd: by descent through the Clayton & Rashleigh families of Surrey and Cornwall, contemporary armorial bookplates and inscriptions.