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[Ornate title page of The Book of Common Prayer.] – Historic Print

[Ornate title page of The Book of Common Prayer.], 1844 — antique lithograph
[Ornate title page of The Book of Common Prayer.], 1844. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Ornate title page of The Book of Common Prayer.], preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Ornate title page of The Book of Common Prayer.]

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Rather than a scene, this lithograph presents an ornamented title page for *The Book of Common Prayer*, the liturgy of the Church of England that has shaped Anglican worship since the sixteenth century. It was issued in a London edition of 1844 from the publisher William Pickering, who was known in that period for carefully produced books. Decorated title pages like this one let devotional volumes announce their dignity before the reader reached the text, and lithography made such elaborate designs far more affordable to reproduce.

Created / published1844
Medium1 print : lithograph.
NotesIllus. in: The Book of Common Prayer, London: William Pickering. 1844. Ref. copy may be in SSF - RELIGION. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Religion; Title pages.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 2,241 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149460

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