The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies : as revised and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at a convention of the said church in the states of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and South-Carolina, held in Philadelphia, from September 27th to October 7th, 1785.

Accession number

PML 150904

Published

Philadelphia, : Printed by Hall and Sellers : and sold for the benefit of sundry corporations and societies, instituted for the support of the widows and children of deceased clergymen, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Credit line

Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.

Notes

Exhibited at the Grolier Club November 1947 in American hand-bindings.
"Tunes, suited to the psalms and hymns of the Book of common prayer": p. [363-364], 1-8. Lacks last leaf containing errata. The music was composed by Francis Hopkinson.
Autographed "George Washington Parke Curtis 1789."

Description

[364], 8, [2] p. : ill.

Provenance

From the library of Julia P. Wightman.

Binding

Full red morocco. American binding. In a brown quarter oasis and cloth folding case by J.P.W.

Classification

Book

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