[Merrymount Press | Fine Binding by Brother Laurence Everson] 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 medium brown full-grained morocco by Brother Laurence [Douglas] Everson, bound circa 1970s, with subtle blind tooling along the bands and the title tooled in blind to the second compartment--undoubtedly taking cues from the original binding. The original presentation bookplate has been preserved on the front pastedown: a gift from John Pierpont Morgan to Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, Massachusetts. "[Updike] designed the book with the