(Vol. vii., pp. 18. 91. 321.)
As you have printed various lists of Prayer-Books, I send you the
following of such books as are in my own possession. Other persons may,
perhaps, send lists of copies in private libraries:
1549. Book of Common Prayer. Whitchurch. June. Folio.
1549. May. Folio. (Wants title and last leaf.)
1549. June. Folio. (Last leaf wanting.)
1552. Whitchurch. Folio.
1552. Grafton. Folio. (Title wanting)
1552. Whitchurch. 4to. The first edition to which the prose
Psalter and the Godly Prayers were appended.
1567. 4to. (No title.)
1571. 24mo.
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1580. Folio.
1574. 4to.
1578. Folio.
1551. Ordinatio Ecclesiæ seu Ministerii, &c. 4to. A Latin
translation of the Book of 1549.
1548. Ordo Distributionis Sacramenti, &c. 12mo. A Latin
translation of the Order of Communion.
1571. Liber Precum Publicarum, &c. Londini, 24mo.
1574. 8vo.
1596. 8vo.
1604. Book of Common Prayer. Folio. (Royal Arms on sides.)
The first edit. of the reign of James I.
1605. Folio.
1605. Folio.
1614. 4to.
1615. Folio.
1618. 4to.
1616. 12mo., bound in silver by the nuns of Little Gidding.
1621. 4to. In Welsh.
1622. Folio.
Liturgia Inglesia, 4to., large paper. A Spanish translation,
made at the cost of Archbishop Williams.
4to. The same.
1616. La Liturgie Angloise, 4to., large paper. This translation
was also made at the charge of Williams.
4to. The same.
1625. Common Prayer. Folio. First edition of the reign of
Charles I. This copy was used by Secretary Nicholas,
in his family, during the period of the Commonwealth.
A clause in his own hand is inserted in the Prayer for
the King.
1628. 12mo.
1631. Folio.
1633. Folio.
1633. Edinburgh. 12mo. (Young.)
1633. 12mo. The same.
1634. 4to.
1636. Folio, large paper. (Royal Arms on sides.)
1636. Folio.
1637. 4to.
1637. 12mo.
1639. 4to.
1640. 24mo.
1657. Edinburgh. Folio. (Young.)
1713. 8vo., large paper. (Watson's reprint of the preceding.)
1660. Folio.
1660. Folio. (A different edition.)
1660. 4to.
1690. 12mo.
1661. Folio, large paper, with the Form at the Healing.
1662. Folio, large paper, with the Form at the Healing.
1662. Folio, large paper.
1662. Folio.
1662. Folio.
1662. Folio. Second edition of this year.
1662. Cambridge. 8vo.
1662. Cambridge. 8vo. Different edition.
1669. Folio.
1686. Folio.
1687. Folio, large paper.
1692. 8vo.
1694. Folio.
1699. 8vo.
1700. 8vo.
1703. Folio, with the Form at the Healing.
1708. 8vo., with the Form at the Healing.
1769. 12mo., with the Form at the Healing.
1715. Folio, with the Form at the Healing.
I have excluded from my list all those thin editions of the Prayer Book,
which were usually bound up with Bibles, except in three instances. The
exceptions are these:--The folio, 1578; Young's edition, 1633; and that
of 1715. Generally these thin books, which have only references to the
Epistles and Gospels, are of no value whatever. The exceptions in this
list, however, are important books. The book of 1578 was prepared by the
Puritans, and is so altered that the word _priest_ does not occur in a
single rubric. Young's book of 1633 is the first Prayer Book printed in
Scotland; and the edition of 1715 is remarkable for "The Healing," though
George I. never attempted to touch for the king's evil.
Should you deem this list worth printing, I will send another of
_occasional forms_, now in my possession, from the reign of Elizabeth to
the accession of the House of Hanover. It may lead others to do the same,
and thus bring to light some forms not generally known. The Prayer Books
and occasional forms in our public libraries are known to most persons;
but it is important to ascertain the existence of others in private
collections.