THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES

London: Henry Hills, 1731. Hardcover. Octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in contemporary full green morocco with gilt tooling to spine, boards, board edges, and turn ins. Binding shows light plus rubbing and wear to corners and edges of boards and to head and tail of spine. Spine sunned to brown, with minor cracking at front joint. All text block edges gilt. Bookplate of Vivian de Sola Pinto to front pastedown. Ownership inscription of Eleanor Sowdon, dated 1829, to second front free endpaper, title page, and first page of text. ESTC: T82215. EH Consignment. Shelved in Room G. Vivian de Sola Pinto (1895-1969) was a British poet and literary critic. The son of a tobacconist, he became a professor of English at the University of Nottingham. He was a scholar of the works of D.H. Lawrence, and testified for the defense in R v Penguin Books Ldt, the 1960 prosecution of Penguin Books for the publication of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959. 1381023. Special Collections.