The Book Of Common Prayer.

PRAYER BOOK,.

Item Number: 2545

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1828.

Folio, bound in brown leather. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine. All edges gilt. In very good condition. Presents wonderfully.

The Book of Common Prayer was created out of Thomas Cranmer's desire for a liturgical text that all of Europe's Protestant, English-speaking churches could agree on. Its magisterial liturgical language is, "as a source of spiritual inspiration for most Englishmen second only to the Bible" (PMM 75). The Book of Common Prayer was first issued in 1549 during the reign of Edward VI and revised through the reign of Mary I, James II, and ending significantly in 1832.