A fine regency Book Of Common Prayer with a fore-edge painting of London. Octavo. Bound in contemporary straight-grained red morocco, with working silver clasps and decoration. With a hidden fore-edge painting of Temple Bar in London, signed “MK”.
A very good example.
From a small collection of fore-edge paintings acquired from Henry Sotheran in the 1980s.
The Book of Common Prayer — [Book Of Common Prayer]
Author
[Book Of Common Prayer]
Publisher
London: John Reeves
Date
[1801]
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