The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Used of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter of Psalms of David, Pointed as They are to by Sung or Said in Churches.

Item Number: 140230

London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1736.

Rare 18th century Book of Common Prayer printed by John Baskett. 16mo, bound in full contemporary elaborately gilt-decorated dark green morocco embellished with white metal clasps, corner pieces, and central engraved monogram lozenge bearing initials M.L., titles and borders red-ruled throughout. Bound with A Companion to the Altar [London: Edmund Parker, 1736] with an engraved frontispiece and The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others [London: Printed by Tho. Wood, for the Company of Stationers, 1737]. In very good condition.

The first Bible printed by 'the assigns of Newcomb and Hills' appeared in 1710, and the name of John Baskett was first added to theirs upon a New Testament in 1712. Baskett began to print the Book of Common Prayer in the following year, when he brought out editions in quarto, octavo, and 12mo. He was made master of the Company of Stationers in 1714 and again in 1715. Four editions of the Bible (folio, quarto, octavo, and duodecimo) appeared with his imprint in 1715. His next publication was an edition in two volumes, imperial folio, printed at Oxford (the Old Testament in 1717 and New Testament in 1716), a work of great typographical beauty, styled by Dibdin 'the most magnificent' of the Oxford Bibles.