Religion – Birket Foster (Myles), illus. Sabbath Bells Chim...

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£40 - £60

Religion – Birket Foster (Myles), illus. Sabbath Bells Chimed by the Poets, new edn., London, Ward, Lock & Tyler, n. d. (1874), 8vo, unpaginated, chromolithographic frontis., numerous engraving and vignettes, some in colour, gilt edges, bound black and gilt embossed bevelled boards with titles to front board and spine; Severin (Mark) and Reid (Andrew), European ex Libris 1950-1970: Engraved Bookplates, Pinner (Middlesex) Private Libraries Association 1972, royal 8vo, 176pp, profuse monochrome illus., orange end-papers matching printed dust wrapper, green cloth boards, virtually mint; Book of Common Prayer, stereotype edition, Cambridge 1822, small 8vo, Acts and Preliminaries, tables, etc. 32 + 33-60 + addendum: prayers and forms of service for use at sea, gunpowder Treason, Restoration of the Royal Family, King’s Accession, Articles of Religion, Tables of Kindred and Affinity, bound with Tate (Nahum 1652-1715) & Brady (Nicholas, 1659-1726), A New Version of the Psalms of David, Cambridge 1824, 84pp, heraldic book plate, arms of de Rodes in garter with motto and crest above, Barlborough Hall below, gilt edges, blue endpapers, bound maroon boards, gilt lines and lettered Barlbro’ Hall/1826 to front board, five raised bands and gilt titles to spine with date 1822, front board and spine coming away (2) *** The prayer book is from the domestic chapel of Barlborough Hall, Derbyshire, one of a number commissioned by Cornelius Heathcote de Rodes, (d. 1825) the squire. The hall was built c. 1590 by Robert Smythson of Judge Sir Francis Rodes (d. 1588), whose son was created a baronet and whose line became extinct in 1743 (albeit with a surviving branch in the US), but the family continued through three female lines, retaining the name de Rodes until inherited by Godfrey Locker-Lampson, MP. Since his death the house has been a Catholic prep school