[Merrymount Press] The Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer; and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Boston: Printed [by The Merrymount Press] for the Commission, 1928. One of 500 copies printed on Kelmscott Hammer and Anvil paper by Daniel Berkeley Updike at the Merrymount Press. Printed in black and red throughout from handset Janson type. The cost of production was underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Jr. Full oxblood pigskin binding with blind-stamped lettering to front cover and spine, and floral ornaments extending from each spine band. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Includes a printed letter from Lucien Moore Robinson, Custodian of the Book of Common Prayer, transmitting the book to the Western Massachusetts Diocese, with the Bishop handwritten on the letter. Some light rubbing to the edges, primarily to the bottom edge, and some spotting