The Offices According to the Use of the Church of England, for the Solemnization of Matrimony; Publick and Private Baptism of Infants; Churching of Women; Visitation and Communion of the Sick; and the Burial of the Dead. To which is now added, an Appendix, Containing useful Directions for the Due Discharge of the foregoing Offices, and other Articles relative to the Ministerial Function in general. [Also with 'Thanksgiving for Harvest' circa 1881].

[BIBLE].

Oxford: printed at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and W. Dawson, 1795. [C of E Ceremonial Usage] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 102 [22]. The complete text, with appendix at rear. Main text numbered in heavy pencil as original pagination has been trimmed away. Thanksgiving for Harvest pamphlet, pp.8, bound in to preliminaries, along with a separate note leaf simply reading 'Albert William Boyce.' With marbled endpapers from a previous binding bound in at front and rear. Very heavily trimmed and rebound in later nineteenth-century full reverse calf, with gilt titles to a red label on spine, and restrained blind ruling to spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. Heavy pencil ownership to verso of flyleaf, and further black ink ownerships to verso of original flyleaf and facing blank. Ink notations and crossings-out to integral pamphlet. Heavy pencil notation to title page, and occasionally through the text, including heavy pencil pagination to the top right corner of each recto. Various heavy pencil ownerships to rear blanks and flyleaves. Leaves generally well-thumbed with occasional creases, but clean. Binding shows light wear only, and a split to the lower half of the upper joint. Binding remains firm. Good. Item #63807

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