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$US 1750.00
Prayer Book of King Edward VII
Imprint: New York, M. Walter Dunne under arrangement with The Essex House, 1903
Binding: Hardback
Folio (14" x 10 3/4"), full dark purple crushed morocco with a double gilt fillet outer border surrounding a border composed of the linked letter "E" interspersed with the Roman numeral "VII" within a frame; in the corners are the monarch's initials below a crown. The central design consists of gilt-stamped crowns and shields and other heraldic symbols, decorated with pink, blue and white paint, ever so slightly worn here and there. Spine with five raised bands, a bit worn at the top; title and date stamped in gilt. Inner purple suede doublures facing purple silk endleaves, with some offsetting; t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. There is an added Illuminated leaf identifying this as the Trinity Edition, which has been especially bound; it bears the publisher's embossed seal at the bottom right.
Specially Bound Deluxe Edition
Stock number:1616.