BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER - BINDING The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 59 engraved plates, Oxford, Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1769BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER - BINDINGThe Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 59 engraved plates, contemporary Chippendale red morocco gilt, the sides richly decorated with wide border of rococo scrollwork, flowers and insects, with a central green morocco oval inlay enclosing the Sacred Monogram ("J.H.S."), the whole surrounded by a gilt gloriole, the spine elaborately tooled within 6 compartments within raised bands, g.e., large 4to (275 x 210mm.), Oxford, Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1769BOUND IN A FINE "CHIPPENDALE" RED MOROCCO BINDING. This copy has been extra-illustrated with fifty-nine engraved plates, the full suite (including title) from a work entitled "The Liturgy of the Church of England; illustrated... with Historical and Explanatory Sculptures... Printed in London in 1755 by Edward Ryland". No copies of this are recorded on ESTC or OCLC. Provenance: John William Beaumont Pease, Lord Wardington (1936-2019), bookplate; Sotheby's, Wardington Library of English Bibles, 12 July 2006, lot 126.