Book - Rites, Prayer Book, c1880

Historical information

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER is one of the major works of English Literature. Since its introduction in the sixteenth century, it has gone through many revisions, both in England and in the other countries of the Anglican Communion, but the original text is still comprehensible and relevant.

Physical description

A small, prayer book c1880

Inscriptions & markings

THE BOOK OF / COMMON PRAYER/ and administration of the Sacrament and other / Rites and Ceremonies of The Church/ according to the use of / THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND / Together with / THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID/

‘I.H. Erskine’ written

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