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Shire of Toodyay > Records

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

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Black leather bound book with gold embossed printing on cover.
Cover - Common Prayer / hymns A & M.
A gold cross is embossed at bottom right.
Spine at top; Common Prayer / hymns.
Oxford stamped at bottom.
Title page - 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; /and the form and manner of making, ordaining, / and consecrating of / Bishops, Priests / and Deacons.
Endpieces are of black paper.
Pages are numbered to 587, with twenty-nine (29) articles in the contents.
A newspaper cutting of Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" is pinned on the left hand side of the first page in. 'S Harper' is written in pencil on top of the next page.

Historical information

Previous accession No CH 166 (b)
Owned by Sarah Harper daughter of Charles Harper first rector of Toodyay

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cwa-org-37-2000.11

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Inscriptions and markings

Oxford:/printed at the University Press./London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press Warehouse,/ Amen Corner.

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