[FINE 18TH CENTURY BINDING] THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

[FINE 18TH CENTURY BINDING] THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYERLondon, Millar Ritchie for J Good, 1794. Thick 8vo, engraved plates, occasional spotting. Bound in a fine contemporary straight-grained red morocco binding, boards with 4 outer gilt rolls and lines including flowers and swags, central gilt devices to centre of both boards with various gilt tools representing the crucifixion, cherub heads above and below the letters IHS, set within a gilt flaming oval, spine fully gilt, some minor wear to lower board and extremities, spine rubbed with hairline vertical cracking but sound. The style of this unsigned binding is heavily influenced by the work of a number of German immigrant bookbinders who moved to England in the late 18th century