Item #56375 A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together). Anthony Sparrow, Lancelot Andrews.
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).
A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).

A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. With THE FORME OF CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH OR CHAPEL AND OF THE PLACE OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL. (Bound together).

London: Robert Pawlet, 1672.

Hardcover. Good plus. Item #56375

6 3/8 x 3 7/8”. Two books bound together. Anthony Sparrow. A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF COMMON-PRAYER…9 leaves [18pp.] includes blank, engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, second title-page, preface, engraved plate (Ecclesiae…), two engraved portraits of Reverendi IOH Overall and M. Richard Hooker followed by 325pp. Rationale. Plus Lancelot Andrews. THE FORME OF CONSECRATION…Engraved frontispiece portrait of Andrews, engraved title, plus 52pp.text, 2 blank leaves. Full leather has general wear, exterior hinges rubbed with 1” splits, front interior hinge solid, rear hinge cracked. Spine has cracking to finish, title either worn off or never there. Small ownership names on fly leaf and verso of blank, one dated 1692. Light water stain and offset from glue on endpapers. Interior pages quite nice and clean. Small edge tear to Andrews’ portrait. Early edition of this classic work.


“The Book of Common Prayer was outlawed, ancient liturgy was forbidden, and any affection for it was cause for arrest and punishment. Sparrow, then a priest in exile, composed this magisterial Commentary as a commentary on the disappearing liturgy, and perhaps also a rallying cry for the forlorn Church in exile.

However to the astonishment of the world, the church returned from the brink of destruction, to a renewed period of flourishing; and in the successive years published the Prayer Book of 1662 as the most famous testament to the longevity of God’s people…one of the most important commentaries yet published up to that point.”-Anglican.net.

Price: $450.00

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