Book of Common Prayer
The Liturgy of the Church of England Adorn'd with Historical Cuts to be sold by Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown, Lombard Street, near Stocks-Market comprising: The Book of Common Prayer, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, Deceas'd, 1707
bound with W[illiam]. V[ickers]., A Companion to the Altar Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preperation...Printed for Edmund Parker, 1706, Fifth ed.
and with Sternhold, Hopkins and others, The Whole Book of Psalms, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1708.
8vo, lacking boards, marbled endpapers; in two columns, ruled throughout in red; hand-coloured and illuminated port. frontis of Queen Anne, additional eng. hand-coloured and illuminated title for collection, 47 hand-coloured and illuminated engraved captioned plates of Biblical scenes, Saints, and to accompany the three special services for the Gunpowder Plot, Charles King and Martyr and the Restoration.
A specially illustrated collection of the standard works of liturgy, accompanied by a popular Sacramental text, specially produced to be sold by Edmund Parker. A similar BCP was sold by Richard Ware, with seemingly identical plates but differing captions. It is possible that the same plates were used by other sellers for their own liturgical books. Ware's does not seem to feature the Vickers however, the only element of the book which bears Parker's own imprint. Interestingly, Vickers' work is one of the few known to have been personally owned by Jane Austen, although a later edition than this one.