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The booke of the common praier and administracion of the sacramentes : and other rites and ceremonies of the Churche : after the use of the Churche of Englande

Church of England, Grafton, Richard, -1572? printer, Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556, editor, Westmorland, Mildmay Fane, Earl of, 1601-1666, former owner, Bullock, J.F.W., former owner · 1549 · Londini : In officina Richardi Graftoni, Regii impressoris · 5 pictures

This is a 1549 Book of Common Prayer printed in London by Richard Grafton for the Church of England, edited by Thomas Cranmer for use in English churches. The pictures are black-letter text pages with historiated and decorated initials, including a figure-filled woodcut initial and a flourished capital, which a designer could draw on for ornamental letterforms and dense typographic color.

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