Anglican Missal containing The Supper of the Lord, and the Holy Communion, commonly called The Mass, Together with Propers of the Season and of the Saints, Customary to be Used in Churches, and also the Forms of Prayer Necessary for the Administration of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion Set Out in the Order of the First English Liturgy of 1549

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~Full red morocco over bevelled boards, triple gilt fillets framing boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Gilt decor to turns ins. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Hinges sound. Original red cloth reinforcing endpaper gutters, just starting. Marbled endpapers, slightly rubbed. Frontis and several full page plates; head- and tail-pieces (Martin Travers’ striking illustrations and designs). Three burgundy silk ribbons. Six black and 11 red thumb-tabs (one black tab is addition). Crease to bottom corner of pp. 31-34. Some foxing to prelims and endpages. Evidently much used and bearing marks of adaptations to liturgical practice throughout, inc. pencil annots, tipped-in and loose typescript additions and substitutions (many typed in red & black; some covering original text). Final 4 blank endpages have tipped-in ‘Supplement of Masses of the English Martyrs’. Considerable use-wear to Order and Canon of the Mass, with tape reinforcement (now yellowed) to 6pp., pencil & pen annots, and many tipped-in substitutions and additions, inc. replacement of vernacular Communion Rite with Latin (‘Haec commixtio’ …). Very scarce, and with additions and annotations to this copy revealing much about liturgical practice. ~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs.