{"product_id":"bible-35","title":"[BIBLE].","description":"\u003cp\u003e.Attractively bound and in remarkable condition. The design with a composite gilt centrepiece and gilt ruling of dentelles was fashionable in England in the 2nd quarter of the C17 (e.g., BL .Add MS 71447. or .Davis42.). In particular, the gold-tooling is here reminiscent of bindings by Daniel Boyse of Cambridge (c.1624), e.g.,  Henry Davis Gift  II, 74. The above and those produced by Boyse generally bear a flat spine. The present may thus be the output of one of several binders all operating in Cambridge in the 2.nd. quarter of the C17 (see Foot, pp.59-75). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .The first work is a very. early. Jacobean. edition of the .Book of Common Prayer -  t.he first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by, and common to, both priest and people .[. .]. one of the greatest of all liturgical rationalizations. . (PMM). - in the  Hampton Court  version, from which it differs in the double column layout. An edition much rarer than the first of .1603, this version .introduced .revisions such as  .prayers for the royal family and the sacramental section of the Catechism. . (Griffiths, p.8). The.se revisions - which were approved at the Hampton Court conference, held in response to the Millenary Petition in January 1604, presided over by James I and attended by major Puritan divines - include .a new prayer for Queen Anne and Prince Henry, as well as others (e.g., for rain, peace or deliverance from the plague); .changes .to rubrics for private baptism; a new section on baptism and the Eucharist; and the addition of Enurchus, Bishop of Orleans, to the calendar on 7 September (perhaps . .an oblique commemoration of Elizabeth I. .s birthday. .) (Griffiths, p.82). .The Old and New Testament are here in the second quarto edition of the Geneva version (after King James s accession), with Tomson s revised New Testament and Junius s Revelation. Whilst the bible t-ps call Robert Barker  Printer to the Queens   Maiestie , the colophon was updated to  Kings .  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .John Benthall and a Holstock family are both recorded in Essex, not far from Cambridge, where the book was probably bound. John Benthall of Halstead (fl. 1660s) was son of his namesake (d.1590), cadet of the Benthalls of Benthall, Shropshire, a predominantly Catholic family. The Holstocks were probably descendants of the naval officer William Holstock of Orsett (d.1589), whose eldest was called Henry. Pasted onto the rear fep is a newspaper cut from  The Courier , dated 1818, advertising to the  noblemen, gentlemen, clergy and freeholders  of Wiltshire the candidacy to Parliament of W.L. Wellesley,  surely one of the most odious men ever to sit in Parliament  (Hist. of Parl.). He engaged in bitter correspondence with the locals after being publicly criticized in print. He was also MP for Essex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[BIBLE].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859659825487,"sku":"L3975","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3975-8-1.jpg?v=1781793702","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/bible-35","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}