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.…

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