THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE HOLY COMMUNION.. by Church of England - 1903

Oxford University Press. Undated c1912 Oxford University Press miniature (40x55 mm) leather-bound hardback; black leather boards with gilt cross to front and gilt titling to spine, gilt page edges, rounded corners, 672 pages; Very Good sound and clean copy, just gift note inside dated 1912 and some rubbing to leather; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Full-Leather. 1912.

Circa 1901. Diamond 128mo. 688 printed pages. Frontispiece. India paper. All edges gilt over red. Rounded corners. White vertically embossed original endpapers (slightly browned). 48 x 56mm. Original ruby morocco; spine with double fillet gilt rules and gilt block lettering (slightly worn at head and tail). Unusual composite ivorine plaques on boards (back plaque with two short cracks and a minuscule chip); upper cover with image after Rubens' Angels in relief. Mentions Edward vii and Alexandra on page 71. The ivorine composite material was sometimes used, most often but not exclusively on prayer books, in imitation of ivory as a more economic and more industrialised process. Also known as Parkesine and Xylonite, the heyday of its use was from around 1870 until about 1910. Charles Courtier & Sons was an uncommon imprint of a London bookseller. Welsh, 1867. OCLC, 424522515. WorldCat locates five copies (just one in the UK).