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'The Book of Common Prayer', detail of a fore-edge painting of 'A Billiard Game', 1772 (w/c on paper)
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Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) (after) / English
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Private Collection
Medium
watercolour on paper
Date
1772 AD (C18th AD)
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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill for S. Crowder and W. Jackson, 1772. 8o (224 x 128 mm). (Some spotting and staining.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with wide gilt border with dog-tooth roll and alternating fleurons, smooth spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in one, a repeated gilt panel in the rest, edges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of A BILLIARD GAME after Thomas Rowlandson (corners worn, covers lightly scuffed).

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