Physical description

The Book of Common Prayer. Small book, dark fabric hardcovers, both embossed design on cover incorporating a cross. Owner's name written in black ink inside the cover, also four brown stamps of a cross inside cover.
Titled "The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rules and Ceremonies of the CHURCH according to the use of The Church of England".
Printed in Great Britain.
Book has 730 numbered pages.
Inscribed with a signature inside the front cover as well as brown stamps of images of a cross..
This is one of the original items in our St Nicholas Seamen's Church Williamstown Collection.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Written in black script inside the front cover "Anne Ambrose".
Stamps of a cross symbol, brown ink, on the covers and some of the pages throughout the book.
Inside front cover, in pencil, "602" "CH 34"
Inside the back cover in blue pen are the numbers "271 / 291 / 24"

Summary

The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational liturgical text of the Church of England and the broader Anglican Communion. The subject book as a standard 730-page UK edition often printed in the late 19th or early 20th century by major privilege presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, or William Clowes & Sons contains the complete 1662 standard text. The volume is structured into distinct sections designed for daily worship, sacramental rites, and personal devotion. There is introductory matter within the text that includes the original prefaces regarding the service of the Church and how the Psalter and Holy Scriptures are ordered to be read. Lectionary and calendar tables are also included as well as lessons for daily Bible readings, rules for determining the date of Easter, and the calendar of Holy Days and saints' days.