The printing and the printers of the Book of common prayer, 1549-1561

Author/Creator:

Blayney, Peter W. M., 1944- author

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The printing and the printers of the Book of common prayer, 1549-1561 / Peter W.M. Blayney

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Church of England.Book of common prayer
Church of England--Publishing
Printing--England--History--16th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

From Henry VIII to the first Edwardian prayer book -- The second Edwardian prayer book -- Mary's reign and Elizabeth's first Parliament -- Richard Grafton's edition (STC 16291) -- The first Jugge-and-Cawood edition (STC 16292) -- The preliminaries : collaboration and cancels -- The orphaned ordinal -- The third and fourth editions -- The quarto and octavo editions -- The 1561 revision of the calendar -- Concluding summary.

Summary:

"Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the first quarto edition of 1559 are now correctly identified, while Peter Blayney shows that the first two editions of 1559 were probably finished on the same day. Through relentless scrutiny of the evidence, he reveals that the contents of the 1549 version continued to evolve both during and after the printing of the first edition, and that changes were still being made to the Elizabethan revision weeks after the Act of Uniformity was passed. His bold reconstruction is transformative for the early Anglican liturgy, and thus for the wider history of the Church of England. This major, revisionist work is a remarkable book about a remarkable book"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xxviii, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937456073002486

ISBN:

9781108837415
1108837417
9781108940597
1108940595

OCLC Number:

1251506151

Barcode:

300000508157