Book of Common Prayer

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A book of common prayer with black blind stamped cover that has in the centre a woman holding a cross and pointing skyward, around the outside is 'Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1698'. Tape, coloured black, runs the length of the spine. Inside front cover handwritten in black ink, 'Mr W Hine, Frith Bottom.
/1- leaf, pressed, found at 'R2 At the burial of the Dead'. /2 - Flower, pressed, found at 'Twentieth Sunday After Trinity'. /3 - Poem, 'Sunset from the Cloud' by P Weston Taylor July 1892, found at 'Twentieth Sunday After Trinity'.
Measurements
185mm (height), 145mm (width), 24mm (depth)
Accession number
1152/06
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