Bound for a church career
Painted with an image of an urn to the front cover of its vellucent binding and with a view of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire to the rear, the Book of Common Prayer & Book of Psalmes shown below was printed in 1774 by T Wright & W Gill for the University of Oxford.
It sold for £1600 at South Cerney auction house Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on October 6.…