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, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1716 [bound with]: THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES, COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH METRE BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, JOHN HOPKINS, AND OTHERS, CONFERRED WITH THE HEBREW ... by [ Book of Common Prayer - Extra-illustrated] - 1716

London: Printed by Stephen Gilbert, for the Company of Stationers, 1716. Not paginated: a-b8,c4,B - 2B8, 2C4 [40,392pp]; A-I8 [144pp]. Octavo. Bound in full contemporary black morocco, raised bands, heavily gilt compartments, covers enclosed within triple- rule and decorated inner and outer border of floral devices, a.e.g. Text printed in black only, but ruled in red. BCP extra-illustrated with 55 plates (see below). Some of the plates are browned, some spotting and erosion to fore-margins of L4-8 and Y1-8, in one case costing a few words, some occasional thumbing, some natural vertical creases to the spine, 1723 gift inscription on binder's blank, otherwise a good copy. An attractive octavo printing of the Prayer Book by Baskett, here the less common variant of that year printed in black only (but ruled in red). It has been extra illustrated with the suite of 55 engravings by Sturt after Veigne, including the portrait and engraved extra title, published by R.W. Whitledge and I. Hazard. Sturt's own fully engraved edition of the BCP appeared the same year. GRIFFITHS 1716.4. ESTC T127517 & T82248 (Psalms).