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BINDING - BIBLE, in English -- The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments . Oxford: T. Wright and W.Gill, 1772. 2 volumes, 4° (312 x 243mm). -- BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments . Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1778. 4° (281 x 227mm). Together 3 volumes. (Occasional light spotting.) Uniform English contemporary red morocco gilt, covers with fillet and dog-tooth roll enclosing a decorative border of alternate flower spray and vase tools, the upper covers stamped with "John Brown, Esq. Mayor, 1782" in gilt, flat spines ornately gilt to an all-over floral pattern except for the title-lettering on the Bible volumes, g.e. Provenance: John Brown binding); Carleton Richmond (armorial bookplate). Three attractive English bindings of about 1782, presumably executed for presentation to John Brown This otherwise unidentified workshop bound another Book of Common Prayer (Cambridge: 1770) with which the present bindings share a large vase and flower tool (see Maggs Bros. catalogue 966, no.154 and reproduction on p.154). (3)