printer).- Book of Common Prayer (The)…, one of 500 copies, printed in red and black, with compliments slip of John Pierpont Morgan loosely inserted and note of receipt and another concerning the binding, light spotting and soiling to endpapers but text clean, original oxblood pigskin, ruled and stamped in blind, t.e.g., others uncut, rather rubbed, spine faded, split to upper joint, folio, Boston, printed by D.B.Updike of the Merrymount Press, 1928 [1930]. *** Updike's magnum opus and one of the most beautifully-designed American books of the twentieth century. It was printed for the Joint Commission on the Revision and Enrichment of the Book of Common Prayer and financed by the banker J.P.Morgan. Updike was well-suited to printing the work being a staunch Episcopalian and familiar with the text; it took two years to produce.
printer).- Book of Common Prayer (The)…, one of 500 copies, printed in red and black, with compliments slip of John Pierpont Morgan loosely inserted and note of receipt and another concerning the binding, light spotting and soiling to endpapers but text clean, original oxblood pigskin, ruled and stamped in blind, t.e.g., others uncut, rather rubbed, spine faded, split to upper joint, folio, Boston, printed by D.B.Updike of the Merrymount Press, 1928 [1930]. *** Updike's magnum opus and one of the most beautifully-designed American books of the twentieth century. It was printed for the Joint Commission on the Revision and Enrichment of the Book of Common Prayer and financed by the banker J.P.Morgan. Updike was well-suited to printing the work being a staunch Episcopalian and familiar with the text; it took two years to produce.
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